The Iron Bridge Gorge is best known for its iron bridges and blast furnaces. It is a rare collection of mining areas, foundries, factories, workshops and warehouses, with an ancient transportation network woven from roadways, tracks, slopes, canals and railways, and some Remnants of traditional landscapes and house buildings coexist.

Built in 1779, the Iron Bridge is an arched structure spanning one hundred feet, 52 feet high and 18 feet wide. It is all cast iron, hundreds of tons in weight, and weighs against the giant statues of Rhode Island. As the first of its kind in the world, the large iron bridge on the Severn River in Colebrookdale, England has a classic symmetry and elegance that is perfectly suited to the 18th century. It has a great development in the world of technology and architecture. The big influence is a symbol of the British industrial revolution of the 18th century.

Tieqiao Village is located in Shropshire, adjacent to the city of Taiford. In the 16th century or earlier, there was a wrought iron blowing furnace to make cooked iron billets. In 1708, a Quaker and iron pot manufacturer named Abraham Dabe rented a furnace in Colebrookdale, and the following year, coke was used instead of charcoal to successfully melt iron and invent A coke ironmaking process replaced the original charcoal ironmaking, and the local area became one of the birthplaces of the British industrial revolution. It is this invention that made the Dabe family alive. His grandson, Abraham Dabe III, later participated in the construction of the Great Iron Bridge. Because of the iron bridge, Tieqiao Village has become a world cultural heritage site.Like the Iron Bridge, the blast furnace is also a famous cultural heritage of the Iron Bridge Gorge.

The blast furnace is a shaft furnace in metallurgical equipment. The charge containing the metal component (ore, agglomerate or agglomerate) is smelted in the presence of blast air or oxygen-enriched air to obtain a crucible or a crude metal. It has the characteristics of high thermal efficiency, large unit productivity (bed capacity), high metal recovery rate, low cost and small floor space. It is one of the important melting equipment for pyrometallurgy. The successful construction of the Iron Bridge, the blast furnace played an indispensable role. It was a necessary tool for the manufacture of iron bridges at the time.

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As we all know, the Iron Bridge Gorge is a symbol of the industrial revolution. It contains all the elements that drove the rapid development of this industrial area in the 18th century, including the mining and railway industries. There is a blast furnace in the coal gorge built in 1708 to commemorate the discovery of coke in this area. The bridge connecting the Iron Bridge Canyon is the world's first bridge made of metal, which has had a tremendous impact on the development of science and technology and architecture.

The greatest memorial to Darby's achievements is the iron bridge itself, perhaps the best known industrial monument in Britain.

The initial idea for the iron bridge came about in 1775, when a group of local businessmen met to discuss how communication between both sides of the river could be improved. The group was made up of, Abraham Darby III, who became the treasurer of the project, John Wilkinson, an ironmaster and Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, an architect from the nearby town of Shrewsbury. At the time, the nearest bridges were located at Bridgnorth and Build was.The number of trading vessels using the river as a means of transportation at the time meant that a bridge with a single arch was paramount. It was Pritchard who proposed a revolutionary iron structure that would span 120ft and cost £3200, a huge amount in those days.Darby agreed to undertake the building and construction work. Casting and transporting the bridges components must have caused problems for them, each rib weighed 5 tons! 

You'll be forgiven for assuming that the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution would leave a filthy, fiery trail of devastation along the way. But, as you can see, the Ironbridge Gorge today is beautiful, and breathes an air of quiet, life-giving spirit. Here, nature has fought back and won.During Abraham Darby's III's lifetime, Coalbrookdale was the most famous and successful industrial area in Great Britain. Engineers and investors of renown came to visit and stand and wonder. The whole area is now a prize-winning World Heritage Site and attracts visitors from the New World to the Far East.Dotted about the landscape are nine different fascinating museums, including the best known Victorian Town at Blists Hill, and Coalport China Museum.