scrap iron

method, process, technology

Product that results from the scrapping of metal-containing products and serves as a secondary raw material.

Also called old iron.

Traveljournal 1814

Cannon casting at the Walker works, 6 September 1814

Traveljournal 1825

Visit to a rolling mill and a refining forge, 2 July 1825

Traveljournal 1845

Fischer visits the patent office, 23 July 1845

Traveljournal 1851

Fischer and his exhibits, 25 June 1851

Lueger, Otto: Lexikon der gesamten Technik und ihrer Hilfswissenschaften, Bd. 7 Stuttgart, Leipzig 1909, S. 818. (Zeno.org, Stand 5.7.2023).

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Cite as: scrap iron. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/keywords/gfa-keywords-2965, viewed on 6 June 2025.

[[title]] — Scrap metal warehouse in the Birch district of Schaffhausen (photographer unknown, 1947)