Part 15 (1/2)

HISTORICAL

1619.--Iron works established on Falling Creek, Va.

1643.--First foundry in Ma.s.sachusetts, at Lynn.

1658.--Blast furnace and forge at New Haven, Conn.

1679.--Father Hennepin discovers coal in Illinois.

1703.--Mordecai Lincoln, ancestor of Abraham Lincoln, establishes iron works at Scituate, Ma.s.s.

1717.--First bar iron exported from American Colonies to West Indies.

1728.--Steel made, Hebron, Ct.

1732.--Father of George Was.h.i.+ngton establishes furnace in Virginia.

1740.--First iron works in New York, near Hudson.

1750.--Bituminous coal mined in Virginia.

1766.--Anthracite coal discovered in Pennsylvania.

1770.--First rolling-mill in Colonies, Boonton, N.J.

1801-1803.--Lake Champlain iron district, New York, developed.

1812.--First rolling-mill at Pittsburg.

1828.--Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, first steam railway in the United States, begun.

1829.--”Stourbridge Lion,” first locomotive in America, used in Delaware & Hudson Railway.

1830.--The T rail invented by Robert L. Stevens.

1830.--First American locomotive, ”Tom Thumb,” built by Peter Cooper at Baltimore.

1830.--Twenty-three miles of railway in the United States.

1844.--Lake Superior iron ores discovered by William Burt.

1850.--First s.h.i.+pment of Lake Superior ore, ten tons.

1857.--Iron industry founded in Chicago.

1862.--Phoenix wrought iron column, or girder, first made.

1864.--Bessemer steel first made in the United States.

1865.--First Bessemer steel rails in the United States rolled at Chicago.