Invention Timeline - John Flack Winslow, American Manufacturer; Produced the Pig-Iron in 1833 and His Firm Built the “Monitor”
b. November 5, 1810 and d. ?
American manufacturer. In 1833 he produced pig-iron and in 1837 controlled the Albany & Rensselaer iron-works, one of the largest producers of railroad and other iron in The U. S. His firm built the “Monitor” which was begun in October, 1861, at Greenpoint, Long Island; launched January 30, 1862, and delivered to the government March 5, 1862. He was president of the company constructing the Poughkeepsie Bridge over the Hudson River.
The workman here, with busy hand,
The fire both late, and early fanned.
The sparks fly out, the bellows ply,
As of the rocks to liquefy.
The fire and water’s might twofold
Are here united found;
The mill-wheel, by the flood seized hold,
In whirling round and round;
The works are clattering night and day,
With measured stroke the hammer’s play,
And yielding to the mighty blows,
The very iron plastic grows.
—Fridolin: Schiller
1543—Ralph Page and Peter Baude made cast-iron in Sussex.
1558—The blast-furnace was introduced into England from Belgium.
1767—Cast-iron rails substituted wood on railroads in England.
