Russia iron

Russia iron

Russia iron or Russian iron refers to a type of sheet iron produced in Russia during the 19th and early 20th century.cite web
url = http://www.narrowgauge.iform.com.au/russian-iron.html
title = Russia Iron
author = Kits, Jerry
date = 1997-01-31
accessdate = 2008-01-11] This iron sheeting had a smooth, glossy black surface coating, sometimes greenish-tinged, which did not flake upon bending and made the sheets highly resistant to rusting. As well as its corrosion resistance, the finish would also withstand high heat; these two properties accounted for most of its uses.

This sheet-iron was used in Russia for stove flues and for roofing, among other tasks. Exported in quantity to the United States, it was notably used there for the cladding of steam locomotive boilers, where it found favor because paints of the time could not withstand the heat to which boiler cladding was subjected; its fine decorative finish went well with the brightly painted locomotives of the time. [cite book
title = Catechism of the Locomotive
author = Matthias Nace Forney
year = 1892
publisher = Frederick Keppy
location = Bridgeport, Connecticut
pages = p. 212
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=XnVKAAAAMAAJ] Its heat-resistant finish also brought it use to clad stoves, ovens, heating pipes and other similar tasks, [cite book
title = International Library of Technology, Volume 380
author = International Textbook Company
publisher = International Textbook Company
location = Scranton, Pennsylvania
year = 1922
pages = p. 41
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=Un5IAAAAMAAJ] and in the manufacture of baking pans and sheets. [cite book
title = Housewifery: A Manual and Text Book of Practical Housekeeping
author = Lydia Ray Balderston
pages = p. 93
publisher = Lippincott
location = Philadelphia
year = 1919
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=bRgLAAAAIAAJ]

The development of high-temperature paints and the trend towards black-painted locomotives combined to reduce the demand for Russia iron by 1900, and little if any was imported after the beginning of World War I.

Manufacturing process

Imitation Russia iron

Much effort was expended on attempting to duplicate Russia iron in the United States, with varying degrees of success. In "The Metallurgy of Iron and Steel", by Henry Stafford Osborn, published 1869, describes a process used successfully which is close to descriptions of the Russian method.cite book
title = The Metallurgy of Iron and Steel
author = Osborn, Henry Stafford
year = 1869
publisher = Henry Carey Baird
location = Philadelphia
pages = pp. 798–801
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=gkx9TtULp1AC]

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