Steel

Carnegie Steels flagship on the Monongahela and site of the 1892 Homestead strike, the bloody battle between Pinkerton agents and ...

Friedrich Krupps cast steel works grew into the Essen cannon works that armed Prussia and imperial Germany, a company town unto it...

Stalins showcase steel city in the southern Urals, planned with American engineering input as a socialist mirror of Pittsburgh. Bl...

Jamsetji Tatas dream, realized by his son Dorab: the first integrated steel plant in Asia, first ingot poured in 1911. The works f...

Once the second largest steelmaker in America, its beams raised the skyscrapers of New York and the Golden Gate Bridge, and its ya...

A complete iron smelting works preserved on the Saar: blast furnaces, cowper stoves, sinter plant, and conveyor galleries frozen a...

Thyssen blast furnaces shut down in 1985 and reborn as Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, the flagship of Ruhr industrial heritage. Di...

Coke fired blast furnaces in the South Wales hills at the dawn of industrial iron, with a water balance tower raising materials up...

The blast furnace where Abraham Darby first smelted iron with coke instead of charcoal in 1709, freeing ironmaking from dwindling ...

A tidewater steel complex on Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore, founded by Pennsylvania Steel and bought by Bethlehem Steel in 1916. B...

United States Steel built this integrated mill on the southern shore of Lake Michigan and founded the city of Gary, Indiana, aroun...

Pohang Iron and Steel was founded in 1968 and fired its first blast furnace in 1973, built partly with Japanese reparations funds....

The Lenin Steelworks east of Krakow, the centrepiece of the socialist new town of Nowa Huta built from 1949. Planned as a proletar...