sheet iron

method, process, technology

Iron that has been worked into a thin, flat sheet. Also known as blackplate.

This blackplate can be covered with tin to protect it against rust, in which case it is known as tin plate, or it can be galvanised (galvanised iron plate).

Traveljournal 1814

Manchester, 2 September 1814
Travelling on the “Salamanca” to Leeds, 3 September 1814
Sheffield and Rotherham, 5 September 1814
Exploring the Black Country on horseback with James Watt, 29 August 1814

Traveljournal 1825

Business in Audincourt and Montbéliard, 30-31 May 1825
With Johann Georg Bodmer and William Fairbairn, 18 June 1825
A guided tour through Leeds, 27 June 1825
Visit to the Park Mill textile mill, 27 June 1825

Traveljournal 1825–1827

Guns and grenades in the Woolwich Arsenal, 22 October 1825

Traveljournal 1845

London–Leeds, 26 July 1845
Low Moor Ironworks, 28 July 1845

Traveljournal 1851

Birmingham, 4 July 1851

Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.

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Cite as: sheet 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-8993, viewed on 6 June 2025.

[[title]] — 4 mm thick piece of blackplate (photograph by Druschba 4, 2016)