Adaptations of the Traditional Sector
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A technique becoming obsolete reaches its highest technical and productive level shortly before it disappears – smelting iron increased productivity in 1820s – 50s – retrenchment on charcoal having highest hares in cost of smelting – even output grew enormously during this period – contemporaries did not see it as certain that wood / iron ore would sink in face British competition.

Trad. Iron industry struggled for survival by both increasing productivity of smelting iron with charcoal and elaborating integrating parts of the new technique

E.G. The Champagne Model – integrating new puddling furnace without changing the rest – puddling furnaces spread as early as 1820 – these use coal, so pressure charcoal prices falls as good a quality but cheaper (Champagne) – new iron was initially inferior quality and had to compete hard against traditional iron and combo iron.

Hot Blast – rendered possible coexistence old and new techniques – increased productivity of smelting both charcoal and coal – better use of the fuel – France, due to high fuel prices, innovation spread v. quickly – applied to charcoal furnaces extending their lifetime – important dev. Is using excess furnace gases to heat air of blower economising on fuel like this protected the traditional iron sector from the rising coal iron industry and also shield more cost-intensive coal industries from the less expensive.

Other Notes in this Category

1. Adaptations of the Traditional Sector
2. Conclusions
3. Definitions and Historiography
4. Direct Transfer
5. Economic Growth in france and britain, 1830-1910 –a review of the evidence
6. Grantham: survey of cliometric contributions to french economic history
7. Growth Rates, Data and Methods
8. Indirect, Embodied Transfer
9. Kindelberger’s review of keyder and o’brien
10. Pioneer industrialiser
11. Post 1750 Growth Coke-Smelting Sector
12. Richard roehl – french industrialisation: a reconstruction
13. Structural Change
14. Technological Transfer: failure, partial adaptations, success
15. The Innovations of the coke blast furnace, of puddling and rolling
16. The modern technology breakthrough ‘right down the line’
17. Tom Kemp – industrialization in nineteenth century europe

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