This site yields some of the earliest evidence anywhere for the Roman use of water-powered trip hammers to crush ore ( Burnham 1997 ).
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The forge included a bloomery furnace which converted the ore into pig iron, and a trip hammer that molded the pig iron into bar iron.
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A mill with a finery forge and trip hammer were established here around 1780 by Conrad Clausen, the owner of B�rum Jernverk ( B�rum Ironworks ).
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Rock and ore crushing had been done for centuries by water powered trip hammers, but trip hammers have been replaced by modern ore crushers and ball mills.
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Rock and ore crushing had been done for centuries by water powered trip hammers, but trip hammers have been replaced by modern ore crushers and ball mills.
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In 1833, Kingsville Township contained one store, one gristmill, two saw mills, two fulling mills, two carding machines, and a trip hammer.
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I thought it might be a trip hammer, but that's based on a cam and a rotating shaft, which this didn't have.
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The Roman encyclopedist Pliny mentions in his " Naturalis Historia " of around 70 AD water-powered trip hammers operating in the greater part of Italy.
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Before he became owner of the ironworks, the farmers around Godeg�rd had refined the wrought iron from the factory into large quantities of nails using small trip hammers.
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In the 18th century, Captain Stephen Jenks built a trip hammer and blacksmith shop along the Blackstone River, forming the nucleus of what would eventually become Central Falls.
