- 'First
oregrounds' came from Österby ('double bullet'),
Leufsta (now Lövsta - hoop L), and Åkerby (PL crown).
Later Gimo
joined them. 'Second
oregrounds' came...
-
Walloon process of
fining iron,
producing what was
known in
England as
oregrounds iron. It was so
called from the
Swedish port of Öregrund,
north of Stockholm...
-
During the 17th century, it was
realized that the best
steel came from
oregrounds iron of a
region north of Stockholm, Sweden. This was
still the usual...
-
mainly for the
production of a
particularly pure kind of iron
known as
oregrounds iron,
which was
exported to
England to make
blister steel. Its purity...
-
Sweden by
Louis de Geer in the
early 17th
century and was used to make the
oregrounds iron
favoured by
English steelmakers. A
variation on this was the German...
-
through Öregrund. In
England the best
quality wrought iron was
known as
Oregrounds iron.
Fishing was
basically the only
industry through the centuries. The...
-
produced about 200
tonnes of
steel per year from
Swedish wrought iron (see
Oregrounds iron). The
introduction of Huntsman's
technique changed this radically:...
- for
structural purposes, and
wrought iron
production went into decline.
Oregrounds iron—a
particularly pure
grade of bar iron made
ultimately from iron ore...
-
family business jointly. They were
leading parti****nts in the
cartel in
oregrounds iron, the raw
material for
blister steel.
After Richard's death, Joseph...
- the
Forsmark plant itself.
Forsmark formerly had an
ironworks producing oregrounds iron. "Forsmark: how
Sweden alerted the
world about the
danger of the...
