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U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Blast Furnace Plant, Along Monongahela River, Duquesne, Allegheny County, PA

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U.S. Steel Duquesne Works, Blast Furnace Plant, Along Monongahela River, Duquesne, Allegheny County, PA

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See also HAER PA-115 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 55 through 158).
Significance: The construction of the Duquesne Steel Works marked an important event in the movement toward integrated steel producing ventures in the Monongahela Valley of western Pennsylvania. Constructed after the Edgar Thomson Works (1875), and the Homestead Works (1884), the Duquesne Works was the site of numerous technological innovations significant in the history of the American steel industry. The mill was the first to employ the "direct process" by which ingots were rolled directly from the soaking pits without being reheated. Under Carnegie Steel a new blast furnace plant was constructed with the industry's first fully mechanized material handling system, an innovation which came to be called the "Duquesne Revolution." For most of its history, Duquesne was a primary producer of semi-finished steel products. In the midst of a declining regional industrial system in the 1960s and 1970s, the mill was shut-down in 1984.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N420
Survey number: HAER PA-115-A
Building/structure dates: 1896 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1918- 1924 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1949-1956 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1961-1962 Subsequent Work

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Heyl & Patterson, Incorporated
Ingersoll-Rand Corporation
Dorr-Oliver Company
General Electric Company
Allis-Chalmers
Wilson-Snyder
Woodings Industrial Corporation
William Bailey Company
Canadian Met-Chem Consultants, Limited
American Bridge Company
Keystone Bridge Company
Terry Steam Turbine Company
Bowser Company of Fort Wayne
John Moore & Sons
American Air Filter Company
Chemical Construction Corporation
Eimco Corporation
Ceramic Cooling Tower Company
Resorcon, Incorporated
Arthur G. McKee & Sons
Riter-Conley Company
Brassert-Vincent Company
Diehl, Ambrose N
Liddle, L E
Elliott Company
Westinghouse Electric Company
Stephens-Adamson Manufacturing Company
Brown Hoisting & Conveying Machine Company
Atlas Car Manufacturing Company
C. O. Barlett & Snow Company
Koppers Company
Neeland, Marvin A
Superior-Lidgerwood-Mundy Company
Carnegie Steel Company
U.S. Steel Corporations
USX Corporation
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Stupich, Martin, photographer
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Location

Duquesne (Pa.)40.38146, -79.85977
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Library of Congress
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