In the early years of Aberdare's development, most of the coal worked in the parish was coking coal, and was consumed locally, chiefly in the ironworks.

The principal ironworks was built by the British Iron Company in 1825 ; it passed to the New British Iron Company in 1843 and to the Ebbw Vale Company in 1852 but closed in 1889.

Coal tar was formerly used as one of the primary ingredients of Tarmacadam pavements, when mixed with ironworks slag.

The application of steam engines to powering cotton mills and ironworks enabled these to be built in places that were most convenient because other resources were available, rather than where there was water to power a watermill.

It was around 2500 BC that the Austronesian people started to populate the archipelago and introduced primitive ironworks technology that they had mastered to the region.

The Nant Ffrwdwyllt was diverted in the 18th century into the ironworks at what was to become Port Talbot to provide a source of water.

In the 17th century, iron ore was discovered in Bærum and the ironworks at Bærums Verk were founded.

Her father was a clerk at a local ironworks.

The carronade was a short smoothbore, cast iron cannon, developed for the Royal Navy by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, UK.

Izhevsk was founded on April 10, 1760 as a settlement surrounding a newly built ironworks.

In 1774, the town was taken by Pugachyov's rebel army, which executed the administrative staff of the ironworks and looted the factory.

The ironworks was the first non-agricultural industry in the town.

Water from the South Branch was a valuable power source for one of the first ironworks in the United States, established by William Allen and Joseph Turner of Philadelphia.

Water power and iron ore were likely the incentives that encouraged settlement: shortly after land was purchased, a man by the name of James Grover had an ironworks built along the river.

At this time, the waterfall was known to be about high ; erosion and the destruction of the dam near the ironworks have led to its diminishment.

Grover ’ s ironworks was the central fixture of the community, and it was one of the oldest built in the country, predated only by buildings in Jamestown and Massachusetts.

In 1675, a half-interest in the ironworks company was purchased by Colonel Lewis Morris,

The ironworks was enlarged, and a village of workmen and their families emerged.

In 1824, Scott's interest in rejuvenating the antiquated ironworks faded when he learned that the Morris Canal was soon to be constructed, and that it would be of little service to the Village of Booneton a mile or more away.

Originally ironworks were the main industry calling Cohoes home, in this it was similar to Troy, Menands, and West Troy.

The general management of the company was at Hällefors, where the company operated ironworks, a wood-grinding mill, a sawmill, a box factory and joinery works.

It was the Irishman John Jennings and his brother-in-law, the Scotsman Robert Finlay, who founded the new ironworks which also got its name, Robertsfors, from Robert Finlay.

However, during the 18th century Middleton also contained a vital ironworks industry, located in the area of what is now Mill and Liberty streets.

" Newark became a substantial inland port, particularly for the wool trade ," though it industrialised to some extent during the Victorian era, and later with an ironworks, engineering, brewing, and a sugar refinery.

He led a small group of wealthy London merchants and bankers as Chairman of the Llynvi Iron Company and established a large integrated ironworks at Maesteg in Glamorgan during 1845 – 6.

The Ebbw Vale conurbation today is a product of areas which grew during the Industrial Revolution in the South Wales coalfield and the South Wales Valleys as a result of the iron industry, local ironworks or have developed as a result of distinct housing areas to serve local industry with workers, they include: Ebbw Vale, Rassau, Garnlydan, Hill Top, Briery Hill, Glyncoed, Willowtown, Glanyrafon, Cwm, Newtown, Victoria, Tyllwyn, Waunlwyd and Ebbw Vale itself.

Although iron was made from 1425 in Pontymoile, now a suburb of Pontypool, Pontypool grew only when Richard Hanbury bought land locally during the Elizabethan period in 1588 and constructed an ironworks.

However, the ironworks remained and provided the Soviet Army with metal during World War II.

Four years later, during the Mexican war of independence, the royalists destroyed the ironworks.

Large amounts of ironstone were taken especially from the Rookhope area during the Industrial Revolution to supply ironworks at Consett and other sites in County Durham.

After the Austrian Anschluss in 1938, the Zeltweg ironworks were incorporated into the Reichswerke Hermann Göring conglomerate, employing numerous unfree labourers during World War II.

In the late nineteenth century, Marbella was a village composed of three parts: the main districts, the Barrio Alto or San Francisco, and the Barrio Nueveo, and three smaller nuclei arranged around the old ironworks and the farm-model of the colony of San Pedro Alcántara, also isolated dwellings in orchards and farms.

Sir Robert had ambitions as an ironmaster and began to develop an ironworks alongside the Dyffryn Llynvi and Porthcawl Railway at Tondu in the late 1830s.

The end of the 18th century saw the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, and the presence of iron ore, limestone and large coal deposits in south-east Wales meant that this area soon saw the establishment of ironworks and coal mines, notably the Cyfarthfa Ironworks and the Dowlais Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil.

In the 18th century, the Stroganovs established a number of ironworks and copper-smelting factories in the Urals.

The Cyfarthfa Ironworks was a major 18th century and 19th century ironworks located in Cyfarthfa, on the north-western edge of Merthyr Tydfil, in South Wales.

The modern history of Wales starts in the 19th century when South Wales became heavily industrialised with ironworks ; this, along with the spread of coal mining to the Cynon and Rhondda valleys from the 1840s, led to a increase in population.

Färna bruk is an ironworks from the 16th century with a stately manor.

Exploitation of the Forest of Dean Coalfield developed rapidly in the early 19th century with increased demand from local ironworks, and when some of the earliest tramroads in the UK were built here to help transport the coal to local ports.

During the 19th century the influx of people from the surrounding counties looking for work in the local ironworks and coal mines gave cricket a boost and in June 1879 " a meeting was held at the Institute to form a cricket club in the town ".

The ironworks were opened between 1565 and 1625, and then re-opened in the 19th century by the Blackmoor Booker company.

The town only developed in the mid 19th century when the ironworks were established in the area after coal was found in the surrounding hills.

During the 19th century it was a busy industrial village with several coal mines, an ironworks, stoneworks, timber-yard and a tinplate works, but by the early 20th century most had succumbed to a loss of markets and the general industrial decline.

It operated for about 40 years and was possibly the first successful ironworks in the colonies ( although Tinton Falls, NJ-late 17th century is another candidate ).

The ironworks closed in 1891 and by the early 20th century the town's collieries employed nearly the entire local population.

Wortley Top Forge is an historic former finery forge and ironworks originally dating back to the seventeenth century, although evidence suggests iron working took place in the vicinity as early as the fourteenth century.

History: Stąporków beginning was the creation at this point in the mid-sixteenth century ironworks Stąpor.

There were ironworks here in Edward the Confessor's reign in the 11th century, when Gretton was a royal manor, and the industry came to the fore again from 1881 to 1980, providing ore for Corby's steel works.

An integrated ironworks in the 19th century usually included one or more blast furnaces and a number of puddling furnaces and / or a foundry with or without other kinds of ironworks.

* Atlantic Basin Iron Works, an ironworks that operated in Brooklyn, New York, in the early to mid-20th century