Search Results for foundry

...Figure 1. Gold nodes in Antioquia and Caribbean New Granada within the Mompox foundry's orbit, 1740–1810. ...

... discussion in this review). Conquistadors and hacendados throughout the Luso-Hispanic world, after all, frequently acted like ancient Visigothic nobles; ironwork found in the hemisphere had its origins in the foundries of Bagdad and early medieval Toledo; and the system of plantation management found from...

... to piece together a comprehensive picture of Jesuit possessions—houses, haciendas, chacras, flour mills, vineyards, tanneries, textile mills, foundries, and slaves—between 1593 and 1767; the methods of their acquisition; the commercial organization, and some scattered information on what happened...

... feels that the problem of poor coking coal can be offset by exporting iron ore in exchange for quality coke. The historical development of the Brazilian iron and steel industry from colonial times to the present is well told. In this survey Baer notes the establishment of foundries, furnaces...

... mining enterprise. Shares in other mines were subscribed to by, among others, the London brewers, Fuller Smith & Turner, various city worthies, and West Indian and Baltic merchants. Mining tools were supplied by the Cornish foundry of Harvey & Hayle, beam engines by the Neath Abbey Ironworks...

.... In the same way, what they did not invest in is indicative of their attitudes. The artisan industry of Valparaiso, notably foundries, failed to tempt them though they were often established by foreigners. In the absence of protection, such enterprises were bound to remain small-scale and risky, no matter...

..., and it was there that he acquired his determination to work toward a modern and industrialized Brazil. His first enterprise was an iron foundry and shipyard. Soon there followed urban services, railroads, steamship companies, and banking establishments. Most of them were closely linked to the British commercial...

... States gave “decisive support” to Juárez. Kératry made the following comment on Lincoln’s promise of assistance in a letter to Juárez: . . . certain documents, which were found in General [Ignacio] Comonfort’s baggage abandoned in the foundry at San Lorenzo, have come under our observation...

... ), whose task it was to levy a per capita local tax ( derrama ) to make up the difference should the quota not be filled. In the principal place of the administrative regions ( comarcas ) foundry houses ( casas de fundição ) were established where all the gold was to be cast. The foundry houses would...

... of Ryukyuans there today would doubtless be inconsequential. The early immigrants took up a variety of occupations, mainly in the city of Buenos Aires. Many worked in sugar refineries, iron foundries, and cafes; a lesser number found employment as domestics, taxi drivers, stevedores, and carpenters’ assistants...

... Villaneuva, owned and operated a broncería (bronze foundry). 31 Two merchants also owned small brickmaking establishments, but in general, merchants showed little interest in local manufacturing, preferring to buy and sell goods produced by others. Only 14 of the merchants of the city were also...

... foundries in Concepción (in the Cibao area) or Buenaventura (Hayna River), where the gold was assayed, cast in bullion, and the royal fifth subtracted. Las Casas puts the yield of the two foundries at some 460,000 pesos (1,923 kg) per year. Pedro Martyr relates that 1,200 pounds of 8 ounces (286 kg) were...

... families, acquired landed wealth of their own, and came round to the view that the coffee crop and its producers must be supported above all else. It was the immigrant Alexandre Siciliano, for example, owner of the largest foundry in São Paulo, and a son-in-law of a prominent planter-politician, who...

... cordage and refractory bricks and modern foundries to make and repair the machinery used by mills. Despite a high level of imports per capita, Cuba’s domestic industry was considerably more developed than that of other small countries such as Guatemala or Honduras, although it was less developed than...

..., felons toiled in repairing the fortifications and other military structures damaged by the British invasion. At the furnaces of the royal foundry of Manila prisoners forged grenades, cannons, hand weapons, and firearms to supply artillery units in the Philippines and even New Spain. 55 In Cavite...

... dissatisfaction when he cried out: “Oh, how miserable is the position of engineers in Brazil.” Industrialism in Brazil created another new group. The Paraguayan War had stimulated a great deal of consumer manufacturing, which increased after the end of the war. By the mid-1870s iron foundries, textile mills...

... of Portugal had been sent to inspect the iron foundry at São João de Ipanema. 4 He had settled there, and it was for this reason that Varnhagen was to be “natural de Sorocaba,” a fact which he often pointed to with considerable pride. The English poet-historian Robert Southey had made another...