IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 1, Number 1, Summer, 1975
Editorial i By Emory L Kemp
A New Adventure V By Ted Sande
Nichols-Colby Sawmill in Bow, New Hampshire 1 By Theodore Z. Penn and Roger Parks
Black Powder Manufacture 13 By Robert A. Howard
The Toole Copper and Lead Smelter 29 By T. Allan Comp
The Coke Ovens at Union Bay 47 By Michael C. Hughes
Ascutney Gravity-Arch Mill Dam 53 By Edwin A. Battison
Omnibus 59
Reviews 68
Retrieval Card Section 71
COVER: The illustration on the cover is a high contrast line conversion of a halftone on page 49 of "A Report of the Mohawk-Hudson Area Survey", Smithsonian Institution, Robert M. Vogel, ed. The structure is a gasholder house of the former Troy Gas Light Company, Troy, N.Y. A gasholder house surrounds an iron gasholder in which gas is stored until needed. IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 2, Number 1, 1976
Editorial 1 By Emory L. Kemp
Alexander Parris: Innovator in Naval Facility Architecture 3 By Helen W. Davis, Edward M. Hatch, and David G. Wright
1818 Beam Engine and Sugar Mill in Haiti 23 By Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt
The Olean-Bayonne Pipeline: A Preliminary Survey 29 By Edward J. Lenik
Tracks and Timber 35 By John H. White, Jr.
The Rocky River Bridge: Triumph in Concrete 47 By Carol Poh Miller
Swing Bridges on the Rideau Canal 59 By Robert W. Passfield
Omnibus 65
Discussion 75
Reviews 83
Retrieval Card Section 93
COVER: The illustration on the cover is from "A Treatise on the Steam Engine" by Jobn Farey (London, 1827). This ten-horsepower engine, built by Jukes Coulson and Company of London, is remarkably similar to the engine found in Haiti in 1927. Cornelius Von S. Roosevelt's interesting article on the Haiti engine begins on page 23 IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 3, Number 1, 1977
Editorial by Emory Kemp
The UTM Grid Reference System 1 by Peter H. Stott
The Alligator or Steam Warping Tug 15 A Canadian Contribution to the Development of Technology in the Forest Industry by R. John Corby
Upper Factory Brook Sawmill: 43 Middlefield, Massachusetts by John S. Wilson
Discussion Section 53
Book Reviews 57
Retrieval Card Section 71 IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 4, Number 1, 1978
Editorial by Michael W. Robbins
Stone Rails Along the Patapsco 1 by John H. White, Jr., and Robert M. Vogel
The Old Croton Aqueduct 15 by George H. Rappole
Valley Crossings on the Old Croton Aqueduct 27 by Larry D. Lankton
The "Duncan Bruce:" A Last Attempt 43 to Revive the Sternwheel Towboat by B. F. McCabe, Jr., and G. P. Parkinson, Jr.
Omnibus 55
Discussion 61
Book Reviews Diane B. Abbott, ed., The Lower Peninsula of Michigan: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites Leonard K. Eaton 65 Carl W. Condit, The Railroad and the City: A Technological and Urbanistic History of Cincinnati Herbert H. Harwood 66 Walter G. Berg, Buildings and Structures of American Railroads Herbert H. Harwood 67 Elizabeth A. Willmot, Meet Me At the Station Herbert H. Harwood 67 Lawrence Grow, compiler, Waiting for the 5:05: Terminal Station and Depot in America Herbert H. Harwood 68 Earl P. Williams Jr., The Architecture and Engineering of Amtrak's Washington-New York Corridor: A Pictorial History Herbert H. Harwood 69 Charles E. Peterson, ed., Building Early America Richard M. Candee 69 Charles Howell and Allan Keller, The Mill John W.McGrain 71 J. Kenneth Major and Martin Watts, Victorian and Edwardian Windmills and Watermills from Old Photographs John W. McGrain 72
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Cover: Arch of 88 feet over Sing-Sing Kill in Ossining. Drawing from Fayette B. Tower, Illustrations of the Cioton Aqueduct (New York, 1843). IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 5, Number 1, 1979
Editorial by Theodore Z. Penn 5
The Knickerbocker Ice Company and Inclined Railway at Rockland Lake, New York by Peter Stott 7
Lenticular Bridges from East Berlin, Connecticut by Victor Darnell 19
John S. Eastwood and the Mountain Dell Dam by Donald S. Jackson 33
Location Book of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad by Catherine Bishir 49
Book Reviews 61
Omnibus 69 IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 6, Number 1. 1980
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ARTICLES Earthworks and Industrial Archeology 1 Jeffrey L. Brown Housing the Urban Industrial Work Force: Milan, Italy, 1860-1914 9 Ornella Selvafolta Quadrangular Treasure: The Cartographic Route to Industrial Archeology 25 Robert M Vogel
MUSEUMS: TWO CASE STUDIES The Kingston Pump House Steam Museum and the Frontenac Society of Model Engineers: A Case Study in the Role of the Local Enthusiast 55 Jack Telgmann The Assay Office of the Western Museum of Mining and Industry: A Case Study in the Concept and Design of an Exhibit 60 Peter M. Molloy
REVIEW ESSAYS Anthony F.C. Wallace's Rockdale 63 Jack S. Blocker, Jr. Historical Archeology: Technique and Theory 65 Brenda Barrett
REVIEWS Kenneth Hudson, World industrial Archaeology… Theodore Z. Penn 67 Gerald Bloom field, The World Automotive Industry… Chester H. Liebs 68 Harold Nockolds, Lucas: The First Hundred Years… Jean H. Daigleish 68 Neil Cossons and Harry Sowden, Iron bridge… T.A. Sande 69 Howard S. Miller and Quinta Scott, The Eads Bridge… Donald C. Jackson 70 Ralph Greenhill and Andrew Birrell, Canadian Photography… Juliet Mannock 70 Ole Hydtoft, ed., The Industrial Environment, 1840-1940… George Emery 71 Peter Priess, An Annotated Bibliography for the Study of Building Hardware… 72 Frank G. White
CONTRIBUTORS 76 IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 7, Number 1, 1981
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ARTICLES The Development of the Leather Belt Main Drive Theodore Z Penn 1
The Importance of Research Outside the Library: Watkins Mill, A Case Study Laurence F. Gross 15
Blast Furnace Technology in the Mid-19th Century: A Case Study of the Adirondack Iron and Steel Company Bruce E. Seely 27
MUSEUMS: VIEWPOINT Preserving a National Symbol: The Steam Locomotive John H. White 55
REVIEWS Daniel J. Walkowitz, Worker City, Company Town… Dennis M. Zembala 61 Daniel T. Rodgers, The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920… Maijorie I. Ingle 64 Ronald L. Lewis, Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia… Mark R. Edwards 65 A.B. Gerdts and P. Hills, The Working American… Raymond L. Wilson 67 David L. Newlands, Early Ontario Potters… Susan H. Myers 67 Mark Fram, Ontario Hydro; Ontario Heritage… Terry S. Reynolds 69 Leslie Syson, The Watermills of Britain… Patrick M. Malone 70 J. Douglas Porteous, Canal Ports: The Urban Achievement of the Canal Age… Gerald T. Bloomfield 71
LETTERS 73
CONTRIBUTORS 76
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS Inside back cover IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 8, Number 1, 1982
EDITORIAL iii
ARTICLES Archeological Evidence of Metallurgical Innovation at the Eli Whitney Armory C.C. Cooper, R.B. Gordon, and H.V. Merrick 1 Housing as a Source for Industrial History: A Case Study of Blaenafon, A Welsh Ironworks Settlement, from 1788 to c1845 Jeremy Lowe 13 The Soo Hydro: A Case Study of the Influence of Managerial and Topographical Constraints on Engineering Design Terry S. Reynolds 37
RESEARCH NOTES The 19th-Century Sugar Mill at Indian Church, Belize David M. Pendergast 57 Canadian Fire Insurance Plans and Industrial Archeology G.T. Bloomfield 67
MUSEUMS The Study of Industrial Heritage and the Problems of Isolating Objects in Museums Wouter F. Renaud 81
REVIEW ESSAYS Historical Archeology: New Perspectives David L. Newlands 85 Discovering Industrial Archeology Eric N. DeLony 87 REVIEWS Nigel Harvey, The Industrial Archaeology of Farming in England and Wales… Norman R. Ball 89 John Graham Smith, The Origins and Early Development of the Heavy Chemical Industry in France… Robert P. Muithauf 89 Machines au Foyer, Special Issue No.3, Culture Technique… Luce Vermette 90
Short Notices 91 DISCUSSION 93 ALPHABETICAL INDEX (Vol.1-7) 95 CONTRIBUTORS 100 IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 9, Number 1, 1983
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ARTICLES Insurance Mapping and Industrial Archeology Helena Wright 1 Material Evidence of the Development of Metalworking Technology at the Collins Axe Factory Robert B. Gordon 19 The Cleft-ridge Span: America's First Concrete Arch William P. Chamberlin 29 The New England Glassworks in Temple, New Hampshire David R. Starbuck 45
REVIEWS Ronald Russell, Lost Canals and Waterways of Britain… William E. Trout III 65 Luis F. Pumarada O'Neill, Breve Historia de las Obras de Ingenieria de Puerto Rico… Warren A. James II 65 Brian Reed, Crewe Locomotive Works and Its Men… Robert B. Gordon 66 David Weitzman, Windmills, Bridges, and Old Machines: Discovering Our Industrial Past… Robert A. Howard 67 Felicity L. Leung, Grist and Flour Mills in Ontario: From Millstones to Rollers, 1 780s-1880s… John W. McGrain 68 Robert Simper, Britain's Maritime Heritage… Carolyn C. Cooper 69 Lance E. Metz and Janet Crouse Epstein (eds.), Proceedings of the Canal History and Technology Symposium, 30 January 1982… Michael S. Raber 70 Judith Tulloch, The Rideau Canal: Defence, Transport, and Recreation; Edward Forbes Bush, Commercial Navigation on the Rideau Canal, 1832-1961… John Lamb 71 J. Lawrence Pool, America's Valley Forges and Valley Furnaces… Robert B. Gordon 71 Mark Fram and John Weiler (eds.), Continuity with Change: Planning for the Conservation of Ontario's Manmade Heritage… Gerald T. Bloom field 72 The Ohio Historic Bridge Inventory, Evaluation and Preservation Plan… Donald C. Jackson 73
DISCUSSION 74
CONTRIBUTORS 76
COVER:Fascia elevation of the Cleft-ridge Span. See William P. Chamberlin, "The Cleft-ridge Span: America's First Concrete Arch," pp.29-44. IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 10, Number 1, 1984
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ARTICLES
The Concord (New Hampshire) Gasholder: Last Intact Survivor from the Gas-Making Era William L. Taylor 1 An Early American Integrated Steelworks Robert B. Gordon and Michael S. Raber 17 Montana's Minneapolis Bridge Builders Fredric L. Quivik 35 The Archeological Investigation of Blacksmith Shops John D. Light 55
REVIEWS William P. Chamberlin, Historic Bridges-Criteria for Decision Making Eric DeLony 69
David J. Frurip, Russell Malewicki, and Donald P. Heldman, Colonial Nails from Michilimackinac: Differentiation by Chemical and Statistical Analysis… J. H. Westbrook 70
Bill McKee and Georgeen Kiassen, Trail of Iron: The CPR and the Birth of the West, 1880-1930; Jeff S. Asay, Western Pacific Timetables and Operations: A History and Compendium… John Wickre 72
CONTRIBUTORS 76
COVER: Half elevation/half section of the Concord Gasholder House. See William L Taylor, "The Concord (New Hampshire) Gasholder: Last Intact Survivor from the Gas-Making Era," pp. 1-16. IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 11, Number 1 1985 EDITORIAL iji
ARTICLES The Role of the Historian in Reconstructing Historic Engineering Structures: Parks Canada's Experience on the Rideau Canal, 1976-1983 Robert W. Passfield 1 Sojourners in Search of Gold: Hydraulic Mining Techniques of the Chinese on the Oregon Frontier Jeffrey M LaLande 29
RESEARCH NOTES Industrial Archeology as a Museum Tool: Prospecting Drills in Northern Saskatchewan David Neufeld 53 The Lower Cove Grindstone Quarries Peter Latta 67
REVIEWS David J Cuming, Discovering Heritage Bridges on Ontario's Roads… David A. Simmons 73 Victor C. Darnell, Directory of American Bridge-Building Companies 1840-1900… Donald C. Jackson 74 Karyl Lee Kibler Hall and Carolyn Cooper, Windows on the Works: Industry on the Eli Whitney Site 1798-1979… David R. Starbuck 75
CONTRIBUTORS 76
COVER: The three masonry flight locks and 31-foot-high stone arched dam at Long Island, Rideau Canal, swing bridge open. Parks Canada, Julian Smith, 1985. See Robert W. Passfield, "The Role of the Historian in Reconstructing Historic Engineering Structures: Parks Canada's Experience on the Rideau Canal, 1976-1983," pp.1-28. IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 12, Number 1, 1986 EDITORIAL iii
ARTICLES Federal Tax Incentives and Industrial Archeology: The Connecticut Experience Mary M. Donohue and David A. Poirier I The Shaker Mills in Canterbury, New Hampshire David R. Starbuck 11 RESEARCH NOTE An Industrial Smithy: Bear Creek, Yukon John D. Light 39
REVIEWS Lance E. Metz (ed.), Proceedings of the Canal History and Technology Symposium, Volume II, March 26, 1983, and Volume III, March 31,1984 Michael… S. Raber 49 David Carmichael (comp.), Guide to the Records of the American Crystal Sugar Company… John M. Wickre 52 William F. Rapp and Susan K. Beranek, The Industrial Archaeology of Nebraska… Robert M. Frame III 53 Patrick Whitehouse and David St. John Thomas (eds.), The Great Western Railway: 150 Glorious Years… Robert B. Gordon 54 David Macaulay, Mill… Robert Weible 55 Kenny A. Franks and Paul F. Lambert, Early Louisiana and Arkansas Oil: A Photographic History 1901-1946… Vance Packard 57 John S. Garner, The Model Company Town: Urban Design through Private Enterprise in 19th-Century New England… Richard M. Candee 57 Carl Oblinger, Cornwall: The People and Culture of an Industrial Camelot, 1890-1980… Edward S. Rutsch 59 John D. Light and Henry Unglik, A Frontier Fur Trade Blacksmith Shop: 1796-1812… Robert B. Gordon 60 Brian Shovers (ed.), The Speculator: A Journal of Butte and Southwest Montana History, Volume 1(1 and 2)… Peter M. Molloy 61 M. Latirner, B. Hindle, and M. Kranzberg (eds.), Bridge to the Future: A Centennial Celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge… Donald C. Jackson 62 Harry L. Rinker, "The Old Raging Erie...," There Have Been Several Changes: A Postcard History of the Erie Canal 1895-1915… Michael S. Raber 63 Kenneth R. Clew, The Kennet and Avon Canal: An Illustrated History… Thorwald Torgersen 64 Monica Reynolds (ed.), Proceedings and Collections of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society 1984… Lance E. Metz 65 John R. Stilgoe, Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene… Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. 67 John Bodnar, Anthracite People: Families, Unions, and Work, 1920-1940… Harold W. Aurand 68 Robert Weible (ed.), Essays from the Lowell Conference on Industrial History: 1982 (Arts and Industrialism) and 1983 (The City)… Stephen K. Victor 69 Camille Wells (ed.), Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture… Herbert Gottfried 70 Duncan A. Stacey, Sockeye and Tinplate: Technological Change in the Fraser River Canning Industry, 1871-1912… Logan W. Hovis 71 George Balcombe, History of Building: Styles, Methods, and Materials… Carl W. Condit 73 Baron Wolman and Tom Horton, Superspan: The Golden Gate Bridge… David A. Simmons 74
CONTRIBUTORS 76
COVER: Plan and cross-section of part of the Shaker mill system in Canterbury, New Hampshire. See David R. Starbuck, "The Shaker Mill's in Canterbury, New Hampshire," pp.11-38. IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 12, Number 2, 1986
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GUEST EDITORIAL Betsy Fahiman 1
ARTICLES The Image Makers: The Role of the Graphic Arts in Industrialization Helena E. Wright 5 The Industrial Landscape in America, 1800-1840: Ideology into Art Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes 19 The Cathedral and the Factory: The Transformation of Work in the Art of Joseph Pennell Anne Cannon Palumbo 39 The Individual vs. the Collective: Images of the American Worker in the 1920s Melissa Dabakis 51
REVIEWS Leland R. Johnson, The Davis Lock and Dam: 1870-1922… Terry S. Reynolds 63 Alan Warren, Rescued from Barry… Walter P. Gray III 64 Philip L. Lord, Jr., Mills on the Tsatsawassa: Techniques for Documenting Early American Industries… John Worrell 65 Gordon Jackson, The History and Archaeology of Ports… Carolyn C. Cooper 67 Dorothy Schweider, Black Diamonds: Life and Work in Iowa's Coal Mining Communities, 1895-1925… David L. Salay 68 David M. Gradwohl and Nancy M. Osborn, Exploring Buried Buxton: Archaeology of an Abandoned Coal Mining Town with a Large Black Population… David L. Salay 70 Paul F. Paskoff, Industrial Evolution: Organization, Structure and Growth of the Pennsylvania Iron Industry 1750-1860… Kirk Jeffrey 71 Margaret Hindle Hazen and Robert M. Hazen, Wealth Inexhaustible: A History of America's Mineral Industries to 1850… Peter M. Molloy 72 Harmut Keil and John B. Jentz, eds., German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective… Peter Rachleff 73
CONTRIBUTORS 76
COVER: Oil Refinery by Joseph Pennell. See Anne Cannon Palumbo, "The Cathedral and the Factory: The Transformation of Work in the Art of Joseph Pennell," pp. 39-50. IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 13, Number 1, 1987
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ARTICLES Surveying Historic Industrial Tidewater Sites: The Case of the B.C, Salmon Canning Industry Dianne Newell 1 The Reading-Halls Station Bridge Emory L. Kemp and Richard K. Anderson, Jr. 17 Thomas Blanchard's Woodworking Machines: Tracking 19th-Century Technological Diffusion Carolyn C. Cooper 41 Innovation and Change in the Antebellum Southern Iron Industry: An Example from Chattanooga, Tennessee Nicholas Honerkamp 55
REVIEWS Charles M. Snyder, Buggy Town: An Era in American Transportation… Joanne Abel Goldman 69 Charles W. Cheape, Family Firm to Modern Multi-National: Norton Company, A New England Enterprise… Marshall R. Hatfield 70 Robert S. Harding, Register of the George H. Clark Radioana Collection, c. 1880-1950… Susan Smulyan 71 Richard M. Candee, Atlantic Heights: A World War 1 Shipbuilders' Community… Thomas W. Harvey 72 Darwin Stapleton, ed., The Engineering Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe; and Edward C. Carter II, J.C. Van Home, and C.E. Brownell, Latrobe's View of America, 1795-1820: Selections from the Watercolors and Sketches… Helena E. Wright 73
CONTRIBUTORS 76
COVER: Bluff Furnace in the charcoal period. See Nicholas Honerkamp, "Innovation and Change in the Antebellum Southern Iron Industry: An Example from Chattanooga, Tennessee," pp. 55-68. IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 14, Number 1, 1988
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ARTICLES
Conservative Innovators, Military Small Arms, and Industrial History at Springfield Armory, 1794-1918 Michael S. Raber 1 Material Evidence of the Manufacturing Methods Used in "Armory Practice" Robert B. Gordon 23 "A Whole Battalion of Stockers": Thomas Blanchard's Production Line and Hand Labor at Springfield Armory Carolyn C. Cooper 37 Little Kinks and Devices at Springfield Armory, 1892-1918 Patrick M. Malone 59
REVIEWS Charles K. Hyde, The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes… Sarah C. Gleason 77 Diane Maddex, ed., Built in the USA.: American Buildings from Airports to Zoos… Amy Schiagel 78 RD. Penhallurick, Tin in Antiquity… Jack H. Westbrook 78 Duane A. Smith, Song of the Hammer and DrilL The Colorado San Juans, 1860-1914… Fredric L. Quivik 79
CONTRIBUTORS 82
COVER: "The Welding Room," from Jacob Abbott, "The Armory at Springfield," Harper's New Monthly Magazine 5 (July 1852):148. IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 14, Number 2, 1988
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ARTICLES The Archeology of Work and Home Life in Lowell, Massachusetts: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Boott Cotton Mills Corporation Mary C. Beaudry and Stephen A. Mrozowski 1 Building on Success: Lowell Mill Construction and Its Results Laurence F. Gross 23 The Haupt Iron Bridge on the Pennsylvania Railroad Victor C. Darnell 35 Industrial Middens in Illinois: The Search for Historical Hazardous Wastes, 1870-1980 Craig E. Colten 51
REVIEWS John Dominick, Cold Spring Granite: A History… Duncan Hay 62 James C. Cobb, Industrialization and Southern Society, 1877-1984… Paul F. Paskoff 63 Minnesota Historical Society, Split Rock Light Tribute to the Age of Steel… Charles K. Hyde 65 Jet Lowe, Industrial Eye… Betsy Fahiman 66 Ralph Greenhill, Engineer's Witness: A Photographic Panorama of Nineteenth-Century Engineering Triumph… Laurence F. Gross 67 Lance E. Metz, ed., Canal History and Technology Proceedings, Vol.5: Iron… Jack H. Westbfook 68 Thomas Leary and Elizabeth Sholes, From Fire to Rust Business, Technology and Work at the Lackawanna Steel Plant, 1889-1983; John Strohmeyer, Crisis in Bethlehem: Big Steel's Battle to Survive; and David Bensman and Roberta Lynch, Rusted Dreams: Hard Times in a Steel Community… David L. Salay 69
CONTRIBUTORS 76
COVER: An 1852 view of the Boott Mills, from Gleason's Pictorial. See Mary C. Beaudry and Stephen A. Mrozowski, "The Archeology of Work and Home Life in Lowell Massachusetts...," pp. 1-22. IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 15, Number 1, 1989
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ARTICLES
A Narrow Window of Opportunity: The Rise and Fall of the Fixed Steel Dam Terry S. Reynolds 1
The 1822 Allendale Mill and Slow-Burning Construction: A Case Study in the Transmission of an Architectural Technology Richard M. Candee 21
Manufacturing Secrecy: The Dueling Cymbalmakers of North America David H. Shayt 35
New England's Gasholder Houses Mary E. Pyne 54
RESEARCH NOTE
Belting Archeology William Worthington, Jr. 63
REVIEWS
Darcie A. MacMahon, Archeological Collections Management at the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, Massachusetts Nicholas Honerkamp 65
Joseph E. Stevens, Hoover Dam: An American Adventure William F. Willingham 66
ALPHABETICAL INDEX (Vols. 1-14) David R. Starbuck 68
CONTRIBUTORS 78
COVER: "A Broken Belt-All Hands Idle-Moral: Buy the Best Belt." From Asher & Adams' Pictorial Album of American Industry (New York: Rutledge Books, 1876, reprinted in 1976), p.172. See William Worthington, Jr., "Belting Archeology," pp.63-64. IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 15, Number 2, 1989
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ARTICLES The Fabric of Historic Bridges Emory L. Kemp, with photographs by Jet Lowe 3
Bridge Building on a National Scale: The King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company David A. Simmons 23 The Other Literature of Bridge Building Victor C. Darnell 40 HAER's Historic Bridge Program Eric DeLony 57
REVIEWS F. Ross Holland, Jr., Great American Lighthouses Carol Poh Miller 72
Brian S. Osbome and Donald Swainson, The Sault Ste. Marie Canal: A Chapter in the History of Great Lakes Transport; Robert W. Passfield, Technology in Transition: The "Soo" Ship Canal, 1889-1985 Terry S. Reynolds 73
CONTRIBUTORS 80
COVER: The Point Bridge at Pittsburgh, from American Bridge Co., PointBridge (Chicago, 1878). See Victor C. Darnell, "The Other Literature of Bridge Building," pp.40-56. IA, THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 16, Number 1, 1990 EDITORIAL 2
ARTICLES AnArcheological Survey of Bloomery Forges in the Adirondacks Ross F. Allen, James C. Dawson, Morris F. Glenn, Robert B. Gordon, David J. Killick, and Richard W. Ward 3 Artificial Refrigeration and the Architecture of 19th-Century American Breweries Susan K. Appel 21 The Work of Rolling Rails in the 32" Mill at Bethlehem Steel's Lackawanna Plant: Industrial Archeology and Labor History Thomas E. Leary 39 From Slaughterhouse to Soap-Boiler: Cincinnati's Meat Packing Industry, Changing Technologies, and the Rise of Mass Production, 1825-1870 Steve C. Gordon 55 Bibliography of State Historic Bridge Inventories Eric DeLony 68
REVIEWS John Burns and the staff of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)/Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), eds., Recording Historic Structures Bonnie Wehie Parks and John W. Snyder 69 Dianne Newell and Ralph Greenhill, Survivals: Aspects of Industrial Archaeology in Ontario Julie Harris 72 Mark S. Foster, Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West Jeffrey K. Stine 73 Judith A. McGaw, Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885 Helena E. Wright 75 Lee H. Nelson, The Colossus of 1812: An American Engineering Superlative Fredric L. Quivik 76 Susan E. Maycock and the staff of the Cambridge Historical Commission, East Cambridge Jane Carolan 77
CONTRIBUTORS 80 COVER: View of the three 50-ton Boyle ice machines in operation at the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association brewery, St. Louis, installed 1881-1882 by Edmund Jungenfeld, architect, from The Western Brewer 8, 4 (April 1883):643. See Susan K. Appel, "Artificial Refrigeration and the Architecture of 19th- Century American Breweries," pp.21-38. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 16, Number 2, 1990 EDITORIAL 2
ARTICLES Oregon's Isaac Lee Patterson Memorial Bridge: The First Use of the Freyssinet Method of Concrete Arch Construction in the United States, 1932 Robert W. Hadlow 3 Industrial Heritage Commemoration in the Canadian Parks Service: Part 1 Robert W. Passfield 15 The Timber Crib Dam at Sewall's Falls David R. Starbuck 40
REVIEWS Philip P. Mason, The Ambassador Bridge: A Monument To Progress Charles L. Best 62 Henry Petroski, The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance David H. Shayt 63 Oliver Evans Chapter of the Society for Industrial Archeology, Workshop of the World: A Selective Guide to the Industrial Archeology of Philadelphia Patrick W. O'Bannon 64 Robert C. Post, Street Railways and the Growth of Los Angeles: Horse-Cable- Electric Lines John W. Snyder 65 Lance F. Metz, ed., Canal History and Technology Proceedings, vol.8 Ed Rutsch 67 Ann Bartholomew and Lance F. Metz, Delaware and Lehigh Canals Robert W. Passfield 69 Richard L. Hills, Power from Steam: A History of the Stationary Steam Engine William Worthington, Jr. 70 Herbert H. Harwood, Royal Blue Line William Worthington, Jr. 72 George Hauck, The Aqueduct of Nemausus Cecil 0. Smith, Jr. 73 Scott E. Hastings, Jr., The Last Yankees: Folkways in Eastern Vermont and the Border Country Matthew Roth 74
Short Takes Donald C. Jackson 76
CONTRIBUTORS 80
COVER: Layout of jacking apparatus, showing placement of jacks at crowns of arch ribs, steel jacking brackets, and hydraulic pumping mechanism. See Robert W. Hadlow, "Oregon's Isaac Lee Patterson Memorial Bridge...," pp. 3-14. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 17, Number 1, 1991
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ARTICLES The Birth of the SIA and Reminiscences by Some of Its Founders Charles K. Hyde 3
Seattle City Light's Constant-Angle Arch Dam at Diablo Canyon Nancy Farm Mannikko 17
Industrial Heritage Commemoration in the Canadian Parks Service: Part II Robert W. Passfield 32
REVIEWS F. Daniel Larkin, John B. Jervis: An American Engineering Pioneer Larry Lankton 68
Stephen Mikesell, Historic Highway Bridges of California Charles K. Hyde 68
Mary Cullen, Slate Roofing in Canada John R. Bowie 69
Short Takes Donald C. Jackson 70
CONTRIBUTORS 80
COVER: Poster for the first annual conference, Society for Industrial Archeology, April 8-9, 1972, at the Cooper Union Great Hall. See Charles K. Hyde, "The Birth of the SIA and Reminiscences by Some of Its Founders," pp. 3-16. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 17, Number 2, 1991 EDITORIAL 2
ARTICLES Machine Archeology: The John Gage Planer Robert B. Gordon 3 19th-Century Charcoal Production in Vermont Victor R. Rolando 15 A Useful Tool Tnrned into a Monument: Controversies over Holland's Windmills in the First Half of the 20th Century Karel F. Mulder 37 Small-Scale Hydropower Development: Archeological and Historical Perspectives from Connecticut Robert R. Gradie III and David A. Poirier 47
REVIEWS Patrick M. Malone, The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics among the New England Indians Stephen Aron 67 William S. Pretzer, ed., Working at Inventing: Thomas A. Edison and the Menlo Park Experience A. Michal McMahon 68 Diane Baker, Potworks: The Industrial Architecture of the Staffordshire Potteries, and John T. Cumbler, A Social History of Economic Decline: Business, Politics, and Work in Trenton Regina Lee Blaszczyk 69 Larry Lankton, Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines David A. Simmons 71 Richard V. Francaviglia, Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America's Historic Mining Districts David B. Landon 72 T. Lindsay Baker, Lighthouses of Texas Charles K. Hyde 73
Short Takes Donald C. Jackson 74
CONTRIBUTORS 80 COVER: European charcoal making in the mid-I 790s, with the earth-covered mounds in various stages of settling and a mound of charcoal (right of center), from A Diderot Pictoria1 Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry (New York: Dover, 1959), plate 25. Courtesy Dover Publications. The process was much the same in 19th-Century Vermont until the charcoal kiln came into use. See Victor R. Rolando, "19th-Century Charcoal Production in Vermont," pp.15-36. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 18, Numbers 1 and 2, 1992
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ARTICLES
Industrial Archeology of American Iron and Steel Robert B. Gordon 5 The Upper Forge at Valley Forge Helen Schenck 19
All Industrial Archeological Survey of the Long Pond Ironworks, West Milford Township, Passaic County, New Jersey Edward S. Rutsch and Brian H. Morrell 40 Vermont's 18th- and 19th-Century Blast Furnace Remains Victor R. Rolando 61 A Revolution in Steel: Mass Production in Pennsylvania, 1867-1901 William Sisson 79
The Development of Modern Blast Furnace Practice: The Monongahela Valley Furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Company, 1872-1913 Joel Sabadasz 94
Men and Tongs: The Belgian Rod Mill at the Washburn Wire Company, East Providence, Rhode Island Thomas E. Leary 106
RESEARCH NOTES
Unearthing Business History: Can Archeology Provide Evidence for Interpreting Management Styles? Edward F. Heite 123 Connecticut Iron and Steel from Black Sea Sands Richard Sanders Allen 129
CONTRIBUTORS 136
COVER: Isometric of Blast Furnace No.1, Duquesne Works, 1990. See Joel Sabadasz, "The Development of Modern Blast Furnace Practice: The Monongahela Valley Furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Company, 1872-1913," pp. 94-105. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 19, Number 1, 1993
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ARTICLES
The Page Belting Company: A Study of 19th-Century Power Transmission Belting Manufacturing Dennis E. Howe 5 National Styles in Engineering: The Case of the 19th-Century Suspension Bridge Emory L. Kemp 21 Elephant under Glass: The Piano Key Bleach House of Deep River, Connecticut David H. Shayt 37
PHOTO ESSAY
Documenting the History of an Industrial City: The Brown Company Photograph Collection of Berlin, New Hampshire William L. Taylor 60
REVIEWS
Victor R. Rolando, 200 Years of Soot and Sweat: The History and Archeology of Vermont's Iron, Charcoal, and Lime Industries Edward S. Rutsch 73 James D. Dilts and Catharine F. Black, eds., Baltimore's Cast-Iron Buildings and Architectural Ironwork Carol Poh Miller 74 Lawrence H. Bradner, The Plum Beach Light: The Birth, Life, and Death of a Lighthouse Bruce Clouette 74 Mildred Gwin Andrews, The Men and the Mills: A History of the Southern Textile Industry John Austen 75 Wilbur S. Johnston, Weaving a Common Thread: A History of the Woolen Industry in the Top of the Shenandoah Valley John Austen 76
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COVER: In 1890 the Page Belting Company of Concord, New Hampshire, developed light, double-ply leather power transmission belting to drive hydro-powered dynamos. This rather overstated illustration of the company's products' role in providing power to operate industry and illuminate streets appeared In its 1894 catalogue. See Dennis E. Howe, "The Page Belting Company: A Study of 19th-Century Power Transmission Belting Manufacturing," pp.5-20. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 19, Number 2 1993
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The Introduction of Cast and Wrought Iron in Bridge Building Emory L. Kemp 5
Surviving Cast- and Wrought-Iron Bridges in America Eric DeLony 17
Cast Aside: The First Cast-Iron Bridge in the United States Frances C. Robb 48
Bridges and Boilers: Americans Discover the Wrought-Iron Tubular Bowstnng Bridge David A. Simmons 63
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COVER: The 1779 bridge built over the Severn River in Shropshire was the first major span-100 feet- constructed of iron. It has been depicted many times over the succeeding 200 years; this c1790 print is an early view of the world-renowned cast-iron bridge. See Emory L. Kemp, "The Introduction of Cast and Wrought Thou in Bridge Building," pp.5-16. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 20, Numbers 1 and 2, 1994
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ARTICLES
An Introduction to New Hampshire Industrial Archeology David R. Starbuck 4
Small-Scale Brickmaking in New Hampshire James L. Garvin 19 Documenting Laconia's Knitting Mills: A Comparison of the Belknap Mills Corporation and Two Present -Day Knitting Mills Mary Rose Boswell 32 The Granite Quarries of Rattlesnake Hill: The Concord, New Hampshire, "Gold Mine" Donna-Belle Garvin 50
PHOTO ESSAYS
The Mills and Machinery of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire John Mayer 69 The Abbot-Downing Company and the Concord Coach Sherry Wilding-White 80 The Mill Village on Goose Creek: Harrisville, New Hampshire Roberta Wingerson 91 The Cog Railway on Mount Washington David R. Starbuck 101 The Maintenance of New Hampshire's First Polyphase Hydroelectric Station Dennis E. Howe 119 The Draper-Maynard Sporting Goods Company of Plymouth, New Hampshire, l840-1937 Rodney Freeman and Katherine C. Donahue, with Eric Baxter, Patrick J. Collins, Marie Connell, and Steven Kantor 139 New Hampshire IA Sites on the National Register of Historic Places Christine Fonda 152
ALPHABETICAL INDEX (Vols. 1-20) 165
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COVER: The elaborately decorated, distinctly customized Concord Coach, as Illustrated by R. P. Hale. See Sherry Wilding-Whlte, "The Abbot-Downing Company and the Concord Coach," pp.80-90. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 21, Number 1, 1995 EDITORIAL 3
ARTICLES Canadian Aesthetics of Early Reinforced-Concrete Bridges Steven A. Walton 5 From the Dolomites to Venice: Rafts and River Driving along the Piave River ia Italy (13th to 20th Centuries) Mauro Agnoletti 15 Introduction of American Bridge Technology into New South Wales, Australia Donald J. Fraser 33 The St. Clair Tunnel: A Triumph of Canadian Engineering Charles K. Hyde 47
REVIEWS Selections from THE CHRONICLE: The Fascinating World of Early Tools and Trades, edited by Emil and Martyl Pollak Carolyn Cooper 57 The Company Town: Architecture and Society in the Early Industrial Age, edited by John S. Garner Josiah McC. Heyman 58 Historic Highway Bridges of Michigan, by Charles K. Hyde John W. Snyder 59 Invisible Networks: Exploring the History of Local Utilities and Public Works, by Ann Durkin Keating James L. Kapplin 61 Josiah White: Quaker Entrepreneur by Norris Hansell Buxton: Work and Racial Equality in a Coal Mining Community by Dorothy Schwieder, Joseph Hraba, and Elmer Schwieder Predric L. Quivik 61 The Schuylkill Navigation: A Photographic History by Harry L. Rinker Jane Mork Gibson 63 Shaping Invention: Thomas Blanchard's Machinery and Patent Management in Nineteenth-Century America, by Carolyn Cooper Nina Lerman 64 Spanning the Industrial Age: The John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Trenton, New Jersey 1848-1974, by Clifford W. Zink and Dorothy White Hartman Emory L. Kemp 66 Australia's Age of Iron: History and Archaeology, by R. Ian Jack and Aedeen Cremin Robert B. Gordon 67 Company Museums, Industry Museums, and Industrial Tours: A Guidebook of Sites in the United States That Are Open to the Public, by Doug Gelbert Robert A. Howard 68 Grain Elevators, by Lisa Mahar-Keplinger Bradley H. Baltensperger 68 The Landscape of Industry: Patterns of Change in the Ironbridge Gorge, by Judith Aifrey and Catherine Clark Charles K. Hyde 69 Historic Louisiana Nails: Aids to the Dating of Old Buildings, by Jay D. Edwards and Tom Wells Amos J. Loveday Jr 71 A Practical Guide to Videohistory: The Smithsonian Institution and Alfred P Sloan Foundation Experiment, edited by Terri A. Schorzman William H. Mulligan Jr 72
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COVER: The tunneling shield at work with segment hoist and workmen, 1889. Illustration from Scientific American, August 9, 1890. See Charles K. Hyde, "The St. Clair Tunnel: A Triumph of Canadian Engineering," pp.47-56. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 21, Number 2, 1995 EDITORIAL 3
ARTICLES Good Engineering, Poor Management: The Battle Creek Hydroelectric System and the Demise of the Northern California Power Company Terry S. Reynolds 5 The River Was Wiser Than the Engineer: Adaptation and Innovation in Bridging the Missouri, 1867-69 Louis W. Potts and George F. W. Hauck 25 The Machine and the Cottage: Building, Technology, and the Single-Family House, 1870-1910 Herbert Gottfried 47 Material Evidence of Ironmaking Techniques Robert B. Gordon 69
REVIEWS Cement Mills Along the Potomac River by Thomas F Hahn and Emory L. Kemp Amy Slaton 81 The Course of Industrial Decline, by Laurence F Gross John Austen 82 The Dardanelle & Russellville Railroad, by Clifton E. Hull and William A. Pollard Jerome C. Rose 83 Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things fmm the Colonial Era to 1850, edited by Judith A. McGaw Amy Bix 84 The Story of the General Crushed Stone Company, Inc., by W. Julian Parton Jill A. Chappel 85 Occasional Reports 6, 11, 12 (on Harpers Ferry), National Park Service, Regional Archeology Program, editors Jill Y Halchin and Paul A. Shackel Sarah F. Cowie 86 Landmark American Bridges, by Eric DeLony John W. Snyder 87 Manhole Covers, by Mimi Melnick Edward Gillespie 88 Meiji Revisited: The Sites of Victorian Japan, by Dallas Finn Carol Poh Miller 89 Los Puentes Hist6ricos de Puerto Rico, by Luis F Pumarada O'Neill Catherine A. Spohn 89 The Texture of Industry: An Archeological View of the Industrialization of North America, by Robert B. Gordon and Patrick M. Malone RobertSpude Unfinished Business: The Railroad in American Life, by Maury Klein David W.Babson 92
CONTRIBUTORS 93
COVER: Isometric view of the 6,000 hp, triple-runner, dual-nozzle Pelton unit, Inskip Powerhouse. See Terry S. Reynolds, "Good Engineering, Poor Management: The Battle Creek Hydroelectric System and the Demise of the Northern California Power Company," pp.5-24. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 22, Number 1, 1996
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ARTICLES Dams and Hydroelectric Technology in the American West: A Different Model Terry S. Reynolds 5 Uncivil Engineers: The Struggle for Control of Seattle's Early Water and Electric Utilities, 1890-1910 Gray Fitzsimons 11 Inventions and Patents for the Public Good: The Needle-Valve Program of the Bureau of Reclamation Jeffrey A. Hess 35 California's First High-Head Turbine Installation James C. Williams 51
REVIEWS Industrial Archaeology: Techniques, edited by Emory L. Kemp David Crossley 65 Pioneers in Historical Archaeology: Breaking New Ground, edited by Stanley South David R. Starbuck 66 Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America, by Henry Petroski Abba G. Lichtenstein 67 Raising Arizona's Dams: Daily Life, Danger; and Discrimination in the Dam Construction Camps of Central Arizona, 1890-1940, by A. E. Rogge, D. Lome McWatters, Melissa Keane, and Richard P Emmanuel Mark Fiege 69 Canals and American Cities: Assessing the Impact of Canals on the Course of American Urban Life, edited by Ronald C. Carlisle Mark R. Finlay 70 The Alexandria Canal: Its History and Preservation, by Thomas S. Hahn and Emory L. Kemp Ronald C. Carlisle 71 The Ohio and Erie Canal: A Glossary of Terms, compiled by Terry K. Wood Lance E. Metz 73 Canal History and Technology Proceedings, vol.9-14, l99~l995, edited by Lance E. Metz Catherine Tobin 74 Make It Pay! Gold Dredge #4, Klondike, Yukon, Canada, by David Neufeld and Patrick Habiluk Randall E. Rohe 75 Breaking Frame: Technology and the visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century, by Julie Wosk Edward Pershey 76 Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984, by Douglass Flamming John Austen 77
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COVER: Advertisement for the Pelton Water WheeL Souvenir of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Calif. See James C. Williams, California's First High-Head Turbine Installation, pp.51-64. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 22, Number 2, 1996 EDITORIAL 3
ARTICLES Assembly-Line Architecture: Albert Kahn and the Evolution of the U.S. Auto Factory, 1905-1940 Charles K. Hyde 5 Aesthetics of a Modern Industry: Buildings of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad's Scranton Yards Amy Slaton 25 Archeological Perspectives on the Diffusion of Technology: An Example from the Ohio Trap Rock Mine Site David B. Landon and Timothy A. Tumberg 40
REVIEWS Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence, by P.R. S. Moorey Robentll.Tykot 58 Early Metal Mining and Production, by Paul T. Craddock S. Terry Childs 59 Jn Quest of Mineral Wealth: Aboriginal and Colonial Mining and Metallurgy in Spanish America (Geoscience and Man, vol.33), edited by Alan K. Craig and Robert C. West David Killick 60 Making Iron and Steel: The Historic Processes 1700-1900, by Jack Chard Vance Packard Jr 61 Historical Building Construction: Design, Materials, and Technology, by Donald Friedman Carol Poh Miller 62 Indiana Canals, by Paul Fatout Albright G. "Zip" Zimmerman 63 Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century, by Walter Licht Larry Gross 64 Pavel Melnikov and the Creation of the Railway System in Russia 1804-1880, by M. Voronin and M. Voronina; trans. by John Decker Emory L. Kemp 65 Roman Bridges, by Colin O'Connor James L. Cooper 67 Taking Charge: The Electric Automobile in America, by Michael Brian Schiffer with Tamara C. Butts and Kimberly K. Grimm Kevin L. Borg 68 Main Street to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architectural, by Chester H. Liebs Larry Lankton 69 31st Annual Steam Passenger Service Directory, edited by Mark Smith JohnJ.Reap 70 Watch It Made in the USA: A Visitor's Guide to the Companies That Make Your Favorite Products, by Bruce Blumberg and Karen Axelrod Robert A. Howard 71 Climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge, Vol.1: From Louisiana to Minnesota, by Mary Charlotte Aubry Costello Robert S. Newbery 71 History from Things: Essays on Material Culture, ed. by Steven Lubar and W. David Kingery Matthew W. Roth 72 Industrial Society and its Museums, 1890-1990: Social Aspirations and Cultural Politics, ed. by Brigitte Schroeder-Gudehus Linda Eikmeier Endersby 74 The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology, by Carroll Pursell Terry S. Reynolds 75 Platt Brothers and Company: Small Business in American Manufacturing, by Matthew W. Roth Sandra L. Norman 76 Short Takes Terry S. Reynolds 77 CONTRIBUTORS 79 COVER: The stamp mill and washing area of the Cliff Mine, c. 1849. See David B. Landon and Timothy A. Tumberg, Archeological Perspectives on the Diffusion of Technology: An Example from the Ohio Trap Rock Mine Site, pp. 41-57. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 23, Number 1, 1997 EDITORIAL 3 INTRODUCTION Dean Herrin. 5 ARTICLES Perfecting the "Iron Lung": Making the New Window Glass Technology Work Richard 0' Connor 7 Fertilizers to the Front: HAER and U.S. Nitrate Plant No.2 Brian F. Coffey 25 Electricity on the High Iron: Cos Cob Powers the New Haven Railroad Robert C. Stewart 43 Drawing Conclusions: Recording IA Sites through Measured and Interpretive Drawings Thomas M. Behrens, Todd A. Croteau, Dean Herrin, Dana L. Lockett, and Christopher H. Marston 61
REVIEWS American Iron, 1607-1900. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology, 19, by Robert B. Gordon Charles K. Hyde 77 A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, J865-J925, by Thomas I. Misa Bruce Seely 78 Founded by the Bay: The History of the Macaulay Foundry 1896-1996, by Anthony Kirk Bode Morin 79 A Bibliography of the History of Canadian Science and Technology, by Arnold E. Roos Richard A. Jarrell 81 Coal Mining in Canada: A Historical and Comparative Overview, by Delphin A. Muise and Robert G. McIntosh Logan Hovis 82 Heat and Cold: Mastering the Great Indoors; A Selective History of Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration from the Ancients to the 1930s, by Barry Donaldson, Bernard Nagengast, and Gershon Meckler Vance Packard Jr 83 The Innovators: The Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern, by David P Billington John M.Lybas 84 Modern Locomotive Construction, 1892, by J. G. A. Meyer Laying Out for Boilermakers and Sheet Metal Workers, [no author] John Austen 86 Railroads of the Adirondacks: A History, by Michael Kudish Thomas Flagg 87 New York Central in the Hudson Valley: The Water Level Route in Steam and Diesel, by George H. Drury Santa Fe in the Mountains: Three Passes of the West Raton, Cajon, and Tehachapi, by George H. Drury William L. Withuhn 88 The Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1915: A Study in American Industrial Practices, by John K. Brown Kyle K. Wyatt 89 Cultural Resource Management: Archaeological Research, Preservation Planning, and Public Education in the Northeastern United States, edited by Jordan E. Kerber William H. Mulligan Jr 90 A Round Indiana: Round Barns in the Hoosier State, by John T. Hanou Eunice M. Roe 91
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COVER: Section through Penthouse. See Richard O'Connor, Perfecting the 'Iron Lung": Making the New Window Glass Technology Work, pp. 7-24. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 23, Number 2, 1997 EDITORIAL 3
ARTICLES "The Continuous Clatter": Practical Field Riveting David A. Simmons 5 The Turcot Riveted Arch-Truss Bridge Robert W. Passfield 21 Biographical Note: Johann Wilhelm Schwedler (1823-94) Michael Mende 47
REVIEWS The National Road and A Guide to the National Road, edited by Karl Raitz David A. Simmons 49 Without Fitting, Filing, or Chipping: An Illustrated History of the Phoenix Bridge Company, by Thomas R. Winpenny Patrick Harshbarger 51 Making Arms in the Machine Age: Philadelphia's Frankford Arsenal, 1816-1870, by James J. Farley Michal McMahon 52 Report on Power and Mach inety Employed in Manufactures.. . (1888), edited by W. P. Trowbridge Terry S. Reynolds 53 The Charcoal Industry in the Roberts Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada, by Ronald L. Reno et al. Daniel J. O'Rourke 54 In Search of Steam Donkeys: Logging Equipment in Oregon, by Merv Johnson Tom A.Hull 56 Manhattan Gateway: New York's Pennsylvania Station, by William D. Middleton Alan M. Levitt 57 The Changing Landscape of Labor: American Workers & Workplaces. Photographs by Michael Jacobsen-Hardy; Essays by John T. Cumbler and Robert E. Weir Robert C. Stewart 58 Living on the Boott: Historical Archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses, Lowell, Massachusetts, by Stephen A. Mrozowski, Grace H. Zeising, and Mary C. Beaudry William H. Mulligan Jr 59 Presenting Archaeology to the Public: Digging for Truths, edited by John H. Jameson Jr. Marco Meniketti 60 Los Tuneles de San German: del abovedado a las leyendas (with an English language section), by Luis F. Pumarada O'Neill Catherine A. Spohn 61
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COVER: The Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company introduced the Boyer long-stroke hammer in 1898. See "'The Continuous Clatter': Practical Field Riveting," David A. Simmons, pp.5-20. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 24, Number 1, 1998 EDITORIAL 3
INTRODUCTION Patrick M. Malone 5
ARTICLES A Mechanic in the Garden: Landscape Design in Industrial Rhode Island Richard Greenwood .9 Greenways in the Industrial City: Parks and Promenades along the Lowell Canals Patrick M. Malone and Charles A. Parrott 19 Plats, Parks, Playgrounds, and Plants: Warren H. Manning's Landscape Designs for the Mining Districts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 1899-1932 Arnold R. Alanen and Lynn Bjorkman 41
REVIEWS The St. Francis Dam Disaster Revisited, edited by Doyce B. Nunis Jr; photographic essay ed. by Charles N. Johnson Donald C. Jackson 61 Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West, by Donald C. Jackson Jeffrey A. Hess 63 Canal History and Technology Proceedings, Vols. 15 and 16, by edited by Lance E. Metz Nadine Miller Peterson 64 Guide to Tourist Railroads and Railroad Museums, compiled by George H. Drury Richard K. Anderson Jr 65 Great American Railroad Stations, by Janet Greenstein Potter H. Roger Grant 66 Culture Change and the New Technology: An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era, by Paul A. Shackel David Landon 66 The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America's Age of Mass Production, by Lindy Biggs Charles K. Hyde 69 Allegheny Oil: The Historic Petroleum Industry on the Allegheny National Forest, by Philip Ross. Doug Reynolds 70 Energy and the Making of Modern California, by James C. Williams Robert W. Righter 72 Artistry and Ingenuity in Artificial Stone: Indiana's Concrete Bridges, 1900-1942, by James L. Cooper Bruce Clouette 73 Broadaxe to Flying Shear: The Mechanization of Forest Harvesting East of the Rockies, by C. Ross Silversides Michael A. Pfeiffer 74 Setting the Pace: Oldsmobile's First 100 Years, by Helen Jones Earley and James R. Walkinshow William Sandy 75 Memoirs of a Steelworker, by David Kuchta Donald W. Linebaugh 76
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COVER: Dutton Street with its mall and rail spur. See Patrick M. Malone and Charles A. Parrott, "Greenways in the Industrial City: Parks and Promenades along the Lowell Canals," pp. 19-40. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 24, Number 2, 1998 EDITORIAL 3
ARTICLES The National Bridge and Iron Works and the Original Parker Truss Victor C. Darnell 5 The 19th-Century Iron Bridges of Northeast Scotland: Their Past, Present, and Future Thomas Day 21 The Technological Evolution of Riveting Machines Bruno Jacomy 36
REVIEWS Managing the Industrial Heritage, edited by Marilyn Palmer and Power at Odds: The 1922 National Shopmen 'S Strike, Peter Neaverson by Cohn J. Davis Fredric L. Quivik, 53 Gray Fitzsimons 64 Learning from Things: Method and Theory of Material Culture International Trucks, by Fred W. Crismon Studies, edited by W. David Kingery John J. Reap 65 Sandra L. Norman, 54 Mineheads, by Bennd and Hula Becher Bridges: A History of the World's Most Famous and Important Jet Lowe67 Spans, by Judith Dupre' Anthracite Ghosts, by Walter L. Dinteman Eric DeLony, 55 Vance Packard Jr 68 Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of En gineering Culture, Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-194], Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America, by Mary Murphy by Eda Kranakis Jane Eva Baxter 68 David A. Simmons, 57 Twentieth-Century Building Materials: History and Conservation, The Fifth Historic Bridges Conference edited by Thomas C. Jester Abba G. Lichtenstein, 58 Herbert Gottfried 70 The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Lock-Houses & Lock-Keepers, The Wellman Polar Airship Expeditions Virgohamna, Dansk~ya, by Thomas S. Hahn Svalbard:A Study in Aerospace Archaeology by P J Capelotti Larry Lowenthal, 60 David Neufeld 71 Early American Railroads: Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner's Die The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Innern Communicationen (1842-1843), by Franz Anton Ritter von Perspective, by Joel A. Tarr Gerstner, et al. Ennest Bauer 72 Larry Lowenthal, 61 The Historic Milling Industry in the Fort Knox Military Great Rail Trails of the Northeast The Essential Outdoor Guide to Reservation, by Nancy O'Malley 26 Recreational-Biking Trails and Their Railroad History, John Austen 73 by Craig Della Penna The Making ofAncient Iron, [videotape] produced by the Center Kenneth A. W. Gansel, 62 for Ancient Studies Southern Pacific in the Bay Area, the San Francisco-Sacramento- Edward S. Rutsch 74 Stockton Triangle, by George H. Drury Spanning the High Desert: New Mexico's Historic Highway Heart of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Main Line: Philadelphia Bridges, [videotape] produced by New Mexico State Highway to Pittsburgh, by Robert S. McGonigal and Transportation Department, et al. John Gruber, 63 Robert W. Hadlow 74 SHORTTAKES 76 CONTRIBUTORS 79
COVER: Workmen assembling rivets in 1889 at the Eiffel Tower in Paris. See Bruno Jacomy, "The Technological Evolution of Riveting Machines;' pp. 3~52. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 25, Number 1, 1999 EDITORIAL 3
ARTICLE HAER and the Recording of Technological Heritage: Reflections on 30 Years' Work Eric DeLony 5
PROJECT LISTING HAER Recording Projects Conducted by the Washington Office 1969-98 Eric DeLony 29
REVIEWS Dictionary of Industrial Archaeology, by William R. Jones William H. Mulligan Jr 57 English Heritage Book of Industrial England, by Michael Stratton and Barrie Trinder Robert M.Vogel 58 Building the Nineteenth Century, by Tom F. Peters David A. Simmons 59 Pounding Out the Profits: A Century of American Invention-The Development and Manufacture of Crank-Actuated Open-Die Power Forging Hammers, by Douglas Freund John Austen 60 Range of Opportunity: A Historical Study of the Copper Range Company, by Richard A. Fields Paul H. Meier 62 The Quest for Comfort: A Selective Pictorial History to Mark the Centenary of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, by Brian Roberts Sara E. Wermiel 62
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COVER: One-point perspective drawing of the B&O's Rail Rolling Mill in Cumberland, Maryland, one of HAER's first interpretive drawing experiments. See Eric DeLony, "HAER and the Recording of Technological Heritage: Reflections on 30 Years' Work," pp.5-28. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 25, Number 2, 1999 EDITORIAL 3
ARTICLES Moving beyond the Factory Gates: The Industrial Archaeology of New Jersey's Terra Cotta Industry Richard Veit 5 When Machines Became Gray and Drawings Black and White: William Sellers and the Rationalization of Mechanical Engineering John K. Brown 29
CONFERENCE PAPERS: "Whither Industrial Archeology?" (Lowell, Massachusetts 1998) Mercenary Historians? Life in the Private-Sector Trenches Charlene K. Roise 55 Condos, Photos, and Singing Bridges: IA in the State Historic Preservation Offices Richard E. Greenwood 59 Industrial Archaeology in Canada: A Binocular View Christopher Andreae and John D. Light 65
REVIEWS Industrial Archaeology: Principles and Practice, Norfolk & Western in the Appalachians: by Marilyn Palmer and Peter Neaverson From the Blue Ridge to the Big Sandy by Ed King Donald L. Hardesty 72 Milwaukee Road in Its Hometown: Landmarks in Mechanical Engineering, In and Around the City of Milwaukee, by Jim Seribbins by ASME International History and Heritage Nancy Farm Mannikko 83 Robert C. Stewart 73 When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in The Making of the Industrial Landscape, by Bartie Trinder Nineteenth-Century America, by K. I. Crisman and A. B. Cohn Larry Lankton 74 Martin J. Butler 84 The Forges du Saint-Maurice: Beginnings of the Iron and Steel Indus- John Ferguson Weir: The Labor of Art, by Betsy Fahlman try in Canada, 1730-1993, by Roch Samson Thomas H. Garver 85 Robert B. Gordon 74 The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology, Copper for America, the United States Copper Industry and Society in Victorian London, by Dale H. Porter from Colonial Times to the 1900s, by Charles K. Hyde Ian Kerr-Wilson 87 Robert L. Spude 75 Architectural Graphic Standards for Architects, Engineers, Decora- Mocha, Banded, Cat's Eye, and Other Factory-Made Slipware, tors, Builders, and Draftsmen, by Lynne Sussman by Charles George Ramsey and Harold Reeve Sleeper Jody Clowes and David B. Driseoll 77 Traditional Details for Building Restoration, Renovation, and Reha- Grindstone Country, by William Bradford Bond bilitation, by C. G. Ramsey and H. R. Sleeper Charles D. Hockensmith 78 John A. Burns 88 Birmingham Bound: An Atlas of the South's Premier Industrial Technology & American History: A Historical Anthology from Tech- Region, by Philip A. Morris and Marjorie L. White nology & Culture, edited by Stephen H. Cuteliffe Mark R. Finlay 80 and Terry S. Reynolds The Eads Bridge, by H. S. Miller; photographs by Q. Scott Louis W. Potts 90 Lance E. Metz 81 Technology & the West: A Historical Anthology Technology & Bridging: Discovering the Beauty of Bridges, by Robert S Cortright Culture, edited by Terry S. Reynolds and Stephen H. Cuteliffe Freda Brown 81 Kathleen H. Ochs, 91 Las onigenes del hormigon armado y su introduccion en Bizkaia: Public History: Essays from the Field, lafabrica Ceres de Bilbao, by Jaume Rosell and Joaquin Carcamo edited by James B. Gardner and Peter S. LaPaglia Luis F. Pumarada-O'Neill 82 Todd Shallat 92
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COVER: Boring and turning mill. See John K. Brown, "When Machines Became Gray and Drawings Black and White: William Sellers and the Rationalization of Mechanical Engineering," pp.29-54. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 26, Number 1, 2000 EDITORIAL 3
ARTICLES Forging a Career: Roland W. Robbins and Iron Industry Sites in the Northeastern U.S. Donald W. Linebaugh 5 "The Beer That Made Klondike Famous and Milwaukee Jealous": The O'Brien Brewing and Malting Company Site, Klondike City, Yukon David V. Burley and Michael H. Will 37 "… as important and vital to successful mining, as the sap is to the tree": The Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania David L. Salay 55 IA and the 20th Century City: Who Will Love the Alameda Corridor? Matthew W. Roth 71 Experimental Industrial Archeology: Imitation in Pursuit of Authenticity Patrick Malone 85 Fragments Shored Against the Ruins: Industrial Archeology and Heritage Preservation Thomas E. Leary and Elizabeth C. Sholes 95 Analysis and Interpretation of Artifacts in Industrial Archeology Robert B. Gordon 103
REVIEWS The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States, Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape by Betsy Hunter Bradley in the American West, by Mark Fiege Richard O'Connor 112 Jeffrey A. Hess 120 Cast-Iron Architecture in Amenca: The Significance of Russian Rail Transport, 1836-1917, by the faculty of the St. James Bogardus, by Margot Gayle and Carol Gayle Petersburg State University, trans. by John C. Decker Carol Poh Miller 114 Lance E. Metz 122 Building the Georgian City, by James Ayres Going Underground: Tunneling Past, Present and Future, David A. Simmons 116 edited by Jeffrey K. Stine and Howard Rosen Cotton, Fire, & Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works Ralph B. Peck 123 and Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839-1912, Ground Penetrating Radar: An Introduction for by Robert S. Davis Jr. Archaeologists, by Lawrence B. Conyers and Dean Goodman Mark R. Finlay 117 Ervan Garrison 124 Connecticut's Ames Iron Works: Family, Community, Practical Evaluation Guide: Tools for Museums & Other Nature, and Innovation in an Enterprise of the Early Informed Educational Settings, by Judy Diamond American Republic, by Gregory Galer, Robert Gordon, and Ed Salo 126 Frances Kemmish The Iron Bridge, by David Morse Edward S. Rutsch 118 Stuart B. Smith 126 Canal History and Technology Proceedings, vol. 18, edited by Lance E. Metz. Mark R. Finlay 119
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COVER: Perspective of Guibal Fan and Pittston Engine. See "The Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania," pp.55-70. THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY Volume 26, Number 2, 2000 EDITORIAL 3
ARTICLES The Industrial Archeology of Retail Coal Yards in Upstate New York Daniel D. Mayer 5 Safety and Showmanship: Corporate Requirements for the Hardy Hydroelectric Plant Cynthia de Miranda 19 The World Heritage Convention As a Medium for Promoting the Industrial Heritage Henry Cleere 31 Speaking in Tongues: The Multiple Voices of Fieldwork in Industrial Archeology Donald L. Hardesty 43 Archeology or Heritage Management: The Conflict of Objectives in the Training of Industrial Archeologists Marilyn Palmer 49 Landscapes as Industrial Artifacts: Lessons from Environmental History Fredric L. Quivik 55 Coming to Terms with the 20th Century: Changing Perceptions of the British Industrial Past Barrie Trinder 65
REVIEWS Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American 24 Great Rail Trails of New Jersey, by Craig Della Penna Industrialization, 1865-1925, by Philip Scranton Kenneth A. W. Gansel 89 Michael S. Raber 81 Treasures of the Longleaf Pines: Naval Stores, Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from by Carroll B. Butler, illustrations by John Christian Wedgewood to Corning, by Regina Lee Blaszczyk Neill Herring 90 Maggie Dennis 82 Mount Dearborn Military Establishment, The Death of a Great Company: Reflections on the Decline comp. by Joe B. Burgess and Fall of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company Mark R. Finlay 91 by W. Julian Parton. Technology and Industrialisation: Historical Case Studies James Sanders Day 84 and International Perspectives, by lan lnkster Coal Mining in Lunesdale, by Philip John Hudson Terry S. Reynolds 92 John Koerth 86 Greenwich Marsh: The 300 Years before the Dome, Proceedings of an International Conference on Historic by Mary Mills Bridges to Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Wheeling Larrie D. Ferreiro 93 Suspension Bridge, ed. by Emory Kemp The Lost Distilleries of Ireland, by Brian Townsend Mark S. Kross 87 Ed Galvin 94
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COVER: The lumber and coal yard of Mr. J. F. Brown. See "The Industrial Archeology of Retail Coal Yards in Upstate New York," pp.5-18. IA THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY
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ARTICLES The Covered Locks of Wood Creek Philip Lord Jr...... 5 The Montevecchio Mining District: Industrial Archeology in SW Sardinia, Italy Gabriele Cruciani ...... 17 Industrial Archeology: An Aggressive Agenda Laurence F. Gross ...... 37 Whither Industrial Archeology? Charles K. Hyde ...... 41
REVIEWS Directory of American Toolmakers: A Listing of Identified Six Bridges: The Legacy of Othmar H. Ammann, by Darl Makers of Tools Who Worked in Canada and the United Rastorfer States before 1900, edited by Robert E. Nelson Patrick Harshbarger ...... 53 George Langford...... 45 Pittsburgh’s Bridges: Architecture and Engineering, by Federal Planning and Historic Places: The Section 106 Walter C. Kidney Process, by Thomas F. King Joseph Elliott ...... 54 Susan R. Martin ...... 45 Archways to Our Past: The Story of Michigan’s Historic Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling, Highway Brides [vhs videotape], by Michigan Department edited by David E. Nye of Transportation and Michigan Historical Center Michael Madson ...... 47 James L. Cooper ...... 55 Canal History and Technology Proceedings, vol. 19, edited North American Windmill Manufacturers’Trade Literature: by Lance Metz...... 48 A Descriptive Guide, compiled and edited by T. Lindsay Albright G. Zimmerman Baker Erik Nordberg ...... 56 Sugar Water: Hawaii’s Plantation Ditches, by Carol Wilcox Carol MacLennan ...... 49 Chemistry, Society, and Environment: A New History of the British Chemical Industry, edited by Colin A. Russell Hoover Dam: The Photographs of Ben Glaha, by Barbara Bruce Poppe ...... 57 Vilander Gianfranco Archimede ...... 51 The First Computers: History and Architectures, edited by Raúl Rojas and Ulf Hashagen Water: Evolution of Water Supply and Sanitation in Finland Mary R. Meredith and Paul H. Meredith ...... 59 from the Mid-1800s to 2000, by Tapio S. Katko Nancy Farm Mannikko ...... 52
CONTRIBUTORS...... 61
COVER: Artist’s conception of one of the covered wooden lock structures along Wood Creek. See “The Covered Locks of Wood Creek,” pp. 5–15. IA THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY
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ARTICLES “... A Monument to Misguided Enterprise”: The Carp River Bloomery Iron Forge David Landon, Patrick Martin, Andrew Sewell, Paul White, Timothy Tumberg, and Jason Menard ...... 5 America’s 19th Century British-Style Fireproof Factories Sara E. Wermiel...... 23 Steamrollers: Those Majestic Machines I. B. Holley Jr...... 37
REVIEWS Twentieth Century Industrial Archaeology, Designing the Bayous: The Control of Water in the by Michael Stratton and Barrie Trinder Atchafalaya Basin, 1800–1995, by Martin Reuss Patrick Malone ...... 49 Michael S. Raber...... 60 Industrial Heritage in Northwest Connecticut: A Guide to The Archaeology of Communities: A New World History and Archeology, by Robert Gordon and Michael Raber Perspective, ed. by Marcello A. Canuto and Jason Yaeger David R. Starbuck...... 51 Efstathios I. Pappas...... 61 Industrial Buildings: Conservation and Regeneration, Archaeology and Created Memory: Public History in a ed. by Michael Stratton National Park, by Paul A. Shackel Julie Kloss...... 52 Elizabeth Norris ...... 63 Miners & Mariners of the Severn Gorge: Probate Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Inventories for Benthall, Broseley, Little Wenlock and Landscape, 1850–1930, by Robert Lewis Madeley 1660–1764, ed. by Barrie Trinder and Nancy Cox Pauline Desjardins ...... 64 Mary C. Beaudry...... 54 It’s Gone; Did You Notice? A History of the Mesabi Range Metal Mining in Canada, 1840–1950, by Jeremy Mouat Village of Franklin, Minnesota, by Barbara A. Milkovich Frederic L. Quivik...... 55 Christopher Tassava ...... 66 Coal on the Lehigh, 1790–1827: Beginnings and Growth of Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron, the Anthracite Industry in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, by Steve Love and David Giffels, ed. by Debbie Van Tassel, by Michael Knies and John Austen...... 56 Wheels of Fortune: A Celebration of the Spirit of Akron The Coal Miners of Panther Valley, by George Harvan (video), prod. by David Lieberth Beryl M. Goldberg ...... 57 John Austen...... 67 Putting ‘Loafing Streams’ to Work: The Building of Lay, Classic American Steamrollers: Photo Archive, Mitchell, Martin, and Jordan Dams, 1910–1929, by Raymond L. Drake and Robert T. Rhode by Harvey H. Jackson III Vance Packard Jr...... 68 Terry S. Reynolds ...... 58 Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction, The Great Kanawha Navigation, by Emory L. Kemp by James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn Lance E. Metz ...... 59 Lance E. Metz ...... 69
CONTRIBUTORS...... 71 COVER: The modified Aveling and Porter Roller exported to the U.S. by the 1870s. See “Steamrollers: Those Majestic Machines,” pp. 37–48. IA THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY
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ARTICLES Introduction: The Art of American Industry Betsy Fahlman ...... 5 Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Mines and Miners: A Portrait of the Industry in America Art, c. 1860Ð1940 Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes...... 11 John Willard Raught, Corwin Knapp Linson, and Stephen Crane: Picturing the Pennsylvania Coal Industry in Word and Image Eric J. Schruers ...... 33 Deep Tunnels and Burning Flues: The Unexpected Political Drama in 1930s Industrial Production Prints Helen Langa ...... 43 Vulcan: Birmingham’s Industrial Colossus Matthew A. Kierstead ...... 59
REVIEWS Perspectives on Industrial Archaeology, ed. by Neil Cossons The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Marilyn Palmer ...... 75 Nineteenth-Century American City, by Sara E. Wermeil Industry, Architecture, and Engineering: American Ingenuity, Carol Poh Miller ...... 88 1750Ð1950, by Louis Bergeron and Maria Teresa Maiullari- Canal History and Technology Proceedings, vol. 20, Pontois; trans. by Jane Marie Todd ed. by Lance E. Metz Alicia B. Valentino...... 76 Brian Cleven ...... 90 Archaeology and Conservation in Ironbridge, by Richard Hayman, Trains and Technology: The American Railroad in the Nineteenth Wendy Horton, and Shelly White Century, vol. 1: Locomotives, by Anthony J. Bianculli Carl Blair ...... 78 Efstathios I. Pappas ...... 90 Assessing Site Significance: A Guide for Archaeologists and Portraits in Steel: An Illustrated History of Jones & Laughlin Steel Historians, by Donald L. Hardesty and Barbara J. Little Corporation, by David H. Wollman and Donald R. Inman Michael Madson ...... 79 John A. Heitmann ...... 92 Industry and Society in Nova Scotia: An Illustrated History, ed. by Moving People from Street to Platform: 100 Years Underground, James E. Candow by Ray Orton Margaret A. Kennedy...... 81 Lee E. Gray ...... 93 Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in the Coal Mines, by Robert McIntosh Building the Trident Network: A Study of the Enrollment of People, D. Lorne McWatters ...... 82 Knowledge, and Machines, by Maggie Mort Blown to Bits in the Mine: A History of Mining & Explosives in the Dan Bonenberger...... 94 United States, by Eric Twitty Art & Technology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, by Larry Lankton ...... 84 Pierre Francastel; trans. by Randall Cherry Elegant Arches, Soaring Spans: C.B. McCullough, Oregon’s Betsy Fahlman ...... 95 Master Bridge Builder, by Robert H. Hadlow Mill Times [video], prod. by WGBH, Boston Eric N. DeLony ...... 85 John Austen ...... 96 In the Wake of Tacoma: Suspension Bridges and the Quest for Aerodynamic Stability, by Richard Scott Forrest Masters ...... 87
SHORT TAKES...... 97
CONTRIBUTORS ...... 99
COVER: Anthracite by Riva Helfond, lithograph (1936–1939). See “Deep Tunnels and Burning Flues: The Unexpected Political Drama in 1930s Industrial Production Plants,” pp. 43–58.