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U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, Blast Furnace Blowing Engine Building, 400 State Street, Clairton, Allegheny County, PA

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U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, Blast Furnace Blowing Engine Building, 400 State Street, Clairton, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, Blast Furnace Blowing Engine Building, 400 State Street, Clairton, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, Blast Furnace Blowing Engine Building, 400 State Street, Clairton, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, 22-Inch Mill Engine, 400 State Street, Clairton, Allegheny County, PA

U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, 14-Inch Mill Engines No. 1 & No. 2, 400 State Street, Clairton, Allegheny County, PA

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U.S. Steel Corporation, Clairton Works, Blast Furnace Blowing Engine Building, 400 State Street, Clairton, Allegheny County, PA

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Summary

Significance: This building houses seven vertical cross-compound condensing steam engines. These blowing engines originally produced wind for the Clairton Works blast furnaces. In ca. 1961, two furnaces (#6 and #7) were torn down.

Survey number: HAER PA-49-A

Building/structure dates: 1903 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1961 Subsequent Work

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machinery steel industry clairton pa steel corporation steel corporation clairton works clairton works blast furnace blast furnace state street allegheny allegheny county pennsylvania jack boucher jack e boucher field curry historic american engineering record southwark foundry and machine company jean p yearby photo ultra high resolution high resolution library of congress industrial history
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Date

1961
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Southwark Foundry & Machine Company
Curry, Field, field team
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Yearby, Jean P, historian
Curry, Field, historian
Yearby, Jean P, historian
Boucher, Jack, photographer
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Location

Clairton (Pa.) ,  40.29409, -79.87284
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Source

Library of Congress
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Link

http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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