Construction of First Pittsburgh Blast Furnace
- When
- 1792
- Where
- Pittsburgh
Legacy database data attributes the first blast furnace in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to George Anschutz in 1792. No supplied passage corroborates the construction, the person, or the year.
According to legacy database data, George Anschutz constructed the first blast furnace in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1792. This attribution is unverified: the supplied passages define blast furnaces as metallurgical structures for smelting iron ore into pig iron but never mention Anschutz, Pittsburgh, or 1792. The legacy row's 1 January day is a likely placeholder, so the date is retained at year precision only. Pittsburgh is recorded as the occurrence locality without implying a more precise site.
Sources
- Blast furnace Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-29
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