Roebling Wire: (Satellite, it was on the east side of NJ-129/Pennsy RR/Delaware & Raritan Canal)
Trenton also had the colonial Trenton Steel Works (satellite). The web page describes the cementation process. It makes you appreciate why the Kelly/Bessemer Process made steel so much cheaper.
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| Scott Lynn posted American Steel and Wire. Later became the US Steel Trenton Works. I worked there for 5 years before they closed the plant. Made bridge cable, crane rope, and other wire rope up to 5 inch! They made cannons and cannon balls for the civil war in one of the buildings. Long gone now😔. Mark Kennedy: My Father started in Sales there in 50"s and then USS purchased them. Still increasing Steel Spring Sales, Invented and Coined "King and Queenn Size Mattress" Working with Mattress and Furniture Manufactures developed "Flexsteel" James Torgeson: The wire and cable for "Mighty Mac" was made there! Scott Lynn: James Torgeson amazing how many different types of cable and wire we made there. The last job I had there was working in “pre-stress.” We would stretch the cable to a certain percentage of it’s maximum capacity to take all of the structural stretch out of the cable. It was amazing the weight that some of them were rated at. It was a really interesting place to work! Dennis DeBruler: This steel mill is evidently in New Jersey instead of Michigan. Where was it in Trenton? The original plant was near the downtown and was a lot smaller. https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.nj1096.photos?st=gallery&c=160 Scott Lynn: Dennis DeBruler that plant was right next to the US Steel one. At the time of this picture it would have been on the other side of the canal. When I worked there the canal had been filled in and there were railroad tracks in its place. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Scott's comment So there were two companies making wire right next to each other. No wonder I was confused. NJ-129 used to be the Pennsylvania Railroad, which used to be a canal. 1907 Trenton Quadrangle @ 125,000 You worked at what started as Trenton Iron and what is now a sports arena. Part of Roebling Wire would be in the lower-right corner of the photo. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Scott's post HAER NJ,11-TRET,33- "Significance: In 1848 John A. Roebling purchased a 25 acre site along the Delaware & Raritan Canal in Chambersburg (now a part of Trenton) for his wire rope business. Roebling designed the buildings and machinery and directed the company until his death in 1869, when his three sons Washington, Ferdinand, and Charles took over. Besides designing, building, and supplying cable and wire rope for important suspension bridges from the 1860s to the 1930s, the company manufactured wire rope and related products for shipping, mining, construction (including the Panama Canal), electrical power transmission, cable cars, tramways, aircraft, submarine netting, musical instruments, elevators, logging and oil drilling. By World War I, the factory was the largest wire rope plant in the world and the company grew considerably in response to steadily increasing demands for its products." This factory was not the largest. Roebling built three more plants including the 1904 Kinkora Works a little downstream from Trenton. |
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| Library Company of Philadelphia - 1 Aerial views of the the American Steel and Wire Company plant. In 1848 John A. Roebling purchased a 25 acre site along the Delaware & Raritan Canal in Chambersburg (now a part of Trenton) for his wire rope business. Roebling designed the buildings and machinery and directed the company until his death in 1869, when his sons took over. The company manufactured wire rope and related products for suspension bridges, shipping, mining, construction (including the Panama Canal), electrical power transmission, cable cars, tramways, aircraft, submarine netting, musical instruments, elevators, logging and oil drilling. By World War I, the factory was the largest wire rope plant in the world and the company grew considerably in response to steadily increasing demands for its products. The company was a subsidiary of the U.S. Steel Corporation. The views show ortions of the plant from several angles with the city of Trenton visible in the distance. |
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| Library Company of Philadelphia - 2 [Part of Roebling Wire is in the middle right of this photo.] |
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| Library Company of Philadelphia - 1 |
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