Steel Making Collection

Middlesbrough Illustrated, Notes at the Eston Works (engraving)
1054639 Middlesbrough Illustrated, Notes at the Eston Works (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Middlesbrough Illustrated, Notes at the Eston Works)

Metalworkers, Styria, Austria, c1935. Creator: Unknown
Metalworkers, Styria, Austria, c1935. Factory workers using an industrial hammer to shape steel. From " Osterreich - Land Und Volk", (Austria, Land and People). [R

Blast furnaces, Donawitz, Austria, c1935. Creator: Unknown
Blast furnaces, Donawitz, Austria, c1935. Steam locomotive at the steel-making industrial complex near Leoben in Styria. From " Osterreich - Land Und Volk", (Austria, Land and People). [R

Bessemers Steel-converting Apparatus, c1917
Bessemers Steel-converting Apparatus - aa Converters; b, hydraulic ram for revolving converter; c, ram to lift platform carrying ladle; d, crane; e, gear for revolving platform; f, hoods to chimneys

Steel Rolling, c1917. From How It is Made, by Archibald Williams. [Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York]

Rolling steel rails, c1880. Artist: Roberts
Rolling steel rails, c1880. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York, c1880)

The Bessemer process for the mass-production of steel, c1880. Artist: CJB
The Bessemer process for the mass-production of steel, c1880. A print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell Petter and Galpin, (London, Paris, New York, c1880)

Steel production: a forge with bellows to produce draught, 1556. In the foreground bars are being hammered with a mechanical hammer

Canalside Warehouse
Used for the storage of bar iron before it was processed in the cementation and crucible works. Said to be the sole survivor of this type of warehouse in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. IoE 457545

Engraving showing Bessemer converter, 1860 design
Engraving showing the operation of a Bessemer converter. The version seen here was designed in 1860, and is essentially the same as those used today for steel making

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Middlesbrough Illustrated: A journey through time in steel making, from the bellows-fed forge of 1556 to the mass-production of the 20th century. Witness the transformation of iron into steel in engravings from Eston Works, Middlesbrough, and Styria, Austria. Discover the Blast Furnaces of Donawitz and Austria, and the revolutionary Bessemer Steel-converting Apparatus. Rolling steel rails since 1880, from the artist's perspective, and the Bessemer process in action. Delve into the history of steel production, where the past meets the present in the Canalside Warehouse. #SteelMaking #History #IndustrialRevolution