Lukens, Charles, 1786-1825
Existence: 1786 - 1825
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1786 - 1825
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John Elgar letter to Charles Lukens
Collection
Accession: 1366
Abstract:
John Elgar was a Quaker master mechanic employed in the York, Pa., foundry of Phineas Davis, Israel Gartner and James Webb. The letter is an order for sheet iron used to build the hull of the steamboat Codorus.
Dates:
1825 March 31
Lukens Steel Company records
Collection
Accession: 0050
Abstract:
Lukens Steel Company was a medium-sized producer of specialty steel products and one of the top three U.S. producers of steel plate. The Lukens Steel Company records documents all aspects of the business from the early nineteenth century through the 1970s.
Dates:
1798-1993
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Black people in the trades 1
- Blast furnaces 1
- Boiler-making industry 1
- Child labor 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Collective bargaining 1
- Company stores 1
- Foundries 1
- Industrial accidents 1
- Industrial relations 1
- Industrial safety 1
- Iron and steel workers 1
- Iron, Structural 1
- Ironworks 1
- Metal cladding 1
- Metallurgy 1
- Open-hearth furnaces 1
- Potash industry and trade 1
- Puddling 1
- Rolling-mills 1
- Sheet-iron 1
- Shipbuilding 1
- Ships 1
- Steel industry and trade 1
- Steel, Structural 1
- Steel-works 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Wages 1
- Water-power 1
- Welding 1 + ∧ less
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