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The Iron Bridge opens over the Severn

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Cast at Coalbrookdale under Abraham Darby III and opened on New Year's Day 1781, the first cast-iron bridge in the world used carpentry joints — dovetails, mortices and wedges — because nobody yet knew how to detail iron. It was a demonstration rather than an economy, and it worked: within a generation iron was a structural material for mills, aqueducts and rails.

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  1. Story
  2. Cast at Coalbrookdale under Abraham Darby III and opened on New Year's Day 1781, the first cast-iron bridge in the world used carpentry joints — dovetails, mortices and wedges — because nobody yet knew how to detail iron. It was a demonstration rather than an economy, and it worked: within a generation iron was a structural material for mills, aqueducts and rails.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Iron
  5. Abraham Darby I
  6. The Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale
  7. The Iron Bridge opens over the Severn
  8. Connections
  9. The Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale
  10. Abraham Darby I
  11. Iron
  12. Iron
  13. The Iron Bridge opens over the Severn
  14. Coke smelting of iron
  15. Darby smelts iron with coke at Coalbrookdale
  16. The Iron Bridge opens over the Severn
  17. The organic economy and its ceiling
  18. The Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale
  19. Darby smelts iron with coke at Coalbrookdale
  20. The Iron Bridge opens over the Severn
  21. Cort patents grooved rolling and puddling
  22. Evidence
  23. Supports the inscription of the gorge, the Darby furnace and the Iron Bridge as a landscape of early industrial ironmaking. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted — whc.unesco.org is blocked from this session. The reference number and criteria are omitted rather than reconstructed.
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