Principio to Wheeling, 1715-1945: A Pageant of Iron and Steel

xiv, 335 pp. A dramatic chronicle of the development of the American iron industry into the steel industry... traces the evolution of a colonial iron furnace at Principio, Maryland, into huge blast and open hearth furnaces and steel mills at Wheeling, West Virginia, which are now helping to win the second World War. Two centuries of metallurgical pioneering and industrial expansion are delineated. A previously little known connection of President Washington's family with the Principio mining and smelting properties is interestingly documented."