2023年11月30日 · Within a century, it was being made in something that much more closely resembles the modern industrial steel foundry: towering blast furnaces many storeys high, …

Owed to the Middle Ages are two vital technological innovations that abounded in the American colonies, the blast furnace and the application of waterpower to almost every stage of the iron …

The suit of armour distinguishes the European Middle Ages & Renaissance from all other periods and cultures. Unlike flexible defences, popular everywhere else in the world, the rigid, …

The Knight and the Blast Furnace: A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Alan Williams.

The knight and the blast furnace : a history of the metallurgy of armour in the Middle Ages & the early modern period / by Alan Williams. – Leiden ; Boston ; Köln : Brill, 2002

The iron technology that the early colonists brought with them to America had changed little since its development in the Middle Ages. Its essentials were: 1) smelting iron from its ore in a blast …

This book tells the story from its invention in 14th century Lombardy, which depended on the production of the necessary steel, until its eventual decline in the 17th century, principally …

One site belonging to the late medieval times was explored where there was a blast furnace with its forge and its annexes. This paper aims to discuss the spatial organization of this site, its …

During the Middle Ages arms and armour were considered luxury products. They were not used every day and not by everyone. Nonetheless, the circle of their buyers was relatively wide, …

2004年10月1日 · Semantic Scholar extracted view of "The Knight and the Blast Furnace: A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Alan …