Coalbrookdale
Proper noun
Meaning
Coalbrookdale
A village in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6604).
Examples
Coke pig iron was hardly used to produce bar iron in forges until the mid-1750s, when his son Abraham Darby II built Horsehay and Ketley furnaces (not far from Coalbrookdale).
Blast furnaces light the iron making town of Coalbrookdale Medieval blast furnaces were about convert tall and made of fireproof brick; forced air was usually provided by hand-operated bellows.
See how the revolutionary Iron Bridge at Coalbrookdale paved the way for the development of science-based engineering.
The process was introduced to England in about 1614 and used to produce such steel by Sir Basil Brooke at Coalbrookdale during the 1610s.