Contents of past issues of IA, The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology

IA JOURNAL ARTICLE SUMMARIES- Select on Volume Number to display each Table of Contents (in PDF)
Vol. 1 (1975) Nichols Colby Sawmill (NH); black powder; Toole copper and lead smelter; coke ovens at Union Bay; (British Columbia); Ascutney gravity-arch mill dam.
Vol. 2 (1976) Alexander Parris; 1818 Haitian beam engine & sugar mill; Olean- Bayonne pipeline; Use of timber in early American RR; Rocky River Bridge (Cleveland); Swing bridges on the Rideau Canal.
Vol. 3 (1977) UTM grid reference system; alligator or steam warping tug; Upper Factory Brook Sawmill (MA).
Vol. 4 (1978) Stone Rails on the Patapsco; Old Croton Aqueduct; sternwheel towboat.
Vol. 5 (1979) Ice company and incline, Rockland Lake, NY; lenticular bridges; John S. Eastwood & Mountain Dell Dam (UT); Raleigh & Gaston Railroad.
Vol. 6 (1980) Earthworks and IA; industrial housing, 1860-1914 (Italy); quadrangular maps.
Vol. 7 (1981) Development of the leather belt main drive; Watkins textile mill; Adirondack Iron and Steel Company blast furnace technology.
Vol. 8 (1982) Eli Whitney Armory (CT), metallurgical evidence; Welsh worker housing; Soo hydro; Belize sugar mill; Canadian fire insurance plans.
Vol. 9 (1983) Collins Axe Factory (CT), metallurgical evidence; New England Glassworks (NH); concrete arch bridge, Prospect Park (Brooklyn, NY); US fire insurance plans.
Vol. 10 (1984) Gasholder house (NH); Minneapolis bridge builders; blacksmith
shops; early integrated steelworks (CT).
Vol. 11 (1985) Historians role in reconstructing Historic Engineering Structures: Parks Canada's experience on the Rideau Canal; Hydraulic Mining Techniques of gold mining in Oregon; IA as a Museum Tool: Prospecting Drills in Northern Saskatchewan; the Lower Cover Grindstone Quarries (Nova Scotia).
Vol. 12, No. 1 (1986) Federal tax incentives for IA (CT); Shaker Mills in Canterbury (NH); an industrial smithy in Bear Creek, Yukon.
Vol. 12, No. 2 (1986) Theme issue, IA in Art: Graphics; landscape painting; Joseph Pennell, 1920's images of American workers.
Vol. 13 (1987) British Columbia salmon canning sites; Reading-Halls Station Bridge (PA); Thomas Blanchard's woodworking machinery; Southern iron industry (Chattanooga, TN).
Vol. 14, No. 1 (1988) Theme issue, Springfield Armory: Innovative manufacturing system for small arms; metallurgical evidence in lock mechanism; Blanchard's production line, 1840's-1850's; engineering kinks for bolt action rifles, 1892 & 1903 models.
Vol. 14, No. 2 (1988) Haupt iron bridge on PA RR, Boot Mill, Lowell; IA of work and home in Lowell; industrial middens (IL).
Vol. 15, No. 1 (1989) Rise and fall of the fixed steel dam (Ash Fork, Arizona; Redridge, Michigan; Hauser Lake, near Helena, Montana); slow burning construction: transmission of architectural technology; cymbal makers and manufacturing secrecy; New England's gasholder houses.
Vol. 15, No. 2 (1989) Structure and materials of bridges; King Iron Bridge and Manufacturing Company; literature of bridge building; HAER's historic bridge program.
Vol, 16, No. 1 (1990) Bloomery Forges in the Adirondacks; 19th century American breweries; rolling rails in Bethlehem steel plant; Cincinnati’s meat packing industry, 1825-1870; bibliography of state historic bridge inventories.
Vol, 16, No. 2 (1990) First use of Freyssienet method of concrete arch construction; industrial heritage in Canadian Parks Service Part I; timber crib dam (NH).
Vol. 17, No. 1 (1991) ***Select here to read about the Birth of the SIA*** Constant-angle arch dam; industrial heritage, Canadian Parks II.
Vol. 17, No. 2 (1991) John Gage Planer; 19thC charcoal production (VT); Holland's windmills; small-scale hydropower development in CT.

Vol. 18 , 1&2 (1992) Theme issue, IA of American iron and steel ; Valley Forge; Long Pond Ironworks (NJ); remains of 18th and 19thC blast furnaces (VT); mass production of steel, 1867-1901 (PA); Monogahela Valley Furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Company; Belgian rod mill (RI).

Vol. 19, No. 1 (1993) Page belting company; 19thC suspension bridge styles; piano key bleach house (CT).
Vol. 19, No. 2 (1993) Theme Issue, Cast and Wrought-Iron Bridges: Surviving examples in US; First Cast-Iron bridge in US; Wrought-Iron Tubular Bowstring Bridge.
Vol. 20, 1&2 (1994) Theme Issue, IA in New Hampshire ; Brickmaking, knitting mills, granite quarries, extensive photo essays, Alphabetical Index of Volumes 1-20.
Vol. 21, No. 1 (1995) Aesthetics in Canadian concrete bridges; rafts and river driving in Italy; American bridge technology in New South Wales; St. Clair tunnel; book reviews.
Vol. 21, No. 2 (1995) Battle Creek (CA) hydroelectric system; Kansas City (MO) bridge; building technology and the American cottage; material evidence Vol. 24, No. 1 (1998) Theme issue, Green Engineering: Parks & Promenades in the Industrial Community; Landscape Design in Industrial Rhode Island; Parks & Promenades along the Lowell Canals; Warren Manning's Landscape Designs for Michigan's UP Mining Districtsof ironmaking techniques; book reviews.

Vol. 22, No. 1 (1996) Theme Issue, Western Hydroelectricity: First high-head turbine in CA; needle valve technology in large dams; struggle for control in Pacific Northwest; book reviews.

Vol. 22, No. 2 (1996) Albert Kahn and factory architecture; aesthetics of building in D L & W RR Scranton yards; Cornish buddles and technology transfer in historic copper mining.

Vol. 23, No. 1 (1997) Documenting Complexity: The Historic American Engineering Record and America's Technological History. Window glass technology, fertilizer and munitions, electrical power for the New Haven RR, measured and interpretive drawings.
Vol. 23, No. 2 (1997) Structural steel field riveting, pneumatic riveting hammer; The Turcot Riveted Arch-Truss Bridge, Quebec, Canada
Vol. 24/1 (1998) Theme Issue; Green Engineering: Parks & Promenades in the Industrial Community; Landscape Design in Industrial Rhode Island; Parks & Promenades along the Lowell Canals, MA; Warren Manning’s Landscape Designs for Michigan’s UP Mining Districts (Calumet & Gwen, MI).

Vol. 24, No. 2 (1998) National Bridge & Iron Works & Original Parker Truss; 19th Century Iron Bridges of NE Scotland; Technological Evolution of Riveting Machines.

Vol. 25, No. 1 (1999) Theme Issue: The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), The Recording of Technological Heritage: Reflections on 30 Years' Work; HAER Project Listing: HAER Recording Projects conducted by the Washington Office 1969-1998.

Vol. 25, No. 2 (1999) Industrial Archaeology of New Jersey's Terra Cotta Industry; William Sellers and the Rationalization of Mechanical Engineering; Whither IA Conference; Private Sector Industrial Archaeologists; IA in State Historic Preservation Offices; Industrial Archaeology in Canada.

Vol. 26, No. 1 (2000) Roland W Robbins & Iron Industry Sites in the NE US; The O'Brien Malting Co. site; Klondike City, Yukon: The Dorrance Colliery Fan Complex, Wilkes-Barre, PA; IA & the 20th Century, Alameda CA corridor, Experimental IA; IA & Heritage Preservation; Analysis & Interpretation of Artifacts in IA.

Vol. 26, No. 2 (2000) IA of retail coal yards in Upstate New York; requirements for Hardy Hydro plant (Michigan); World Heritage convention & promoting industrial heritage; Multiple voices of fieldwork in IA; Archeology or heritage management; conflict in training Industrial Archeologists; Landscapes as industrial artifacts; changing perceptions of the British industrial past.

Vol. 27, No. 1 (2001) Covered locks of Wood Creek, sites & construction process (Oneida County, NY); Montevecchio Mining District (lead & zinc mining, 1848-1991), Sardinia, Italy; IA: assess its future, admire its past.

Vol. 27, No. 2 (2001) Carp River Bloomery Iron Forge, Jackson Iron Co. U.P. of Michigan; America's 19th Century British-Style Fireproof Factories; History of Steamrollers.
Vol. 28, No. 1 (2002) Theme Issue: IA in Art; The Art of American Industry; Pennsylvania's Anthracite Mines & Miners: A portrait of Industry in American Art (1860-1940); Picturing the Pennsylvania Coal Industry in Word & Image; Deep Tunnels & Burning Flues: The Unexpected Political Drama in 1930s Industrial Production Prints; Vulcan: Birmingham's (AL) Industrial Colossus (History of the 65 ft, 60 ton Vulcan statue)
Vol. 28. No. 2 (2002) Aldrich Change Bridge (Erie Canal, New York State): Evaluation of the Strength of Historic Bridge Iron; Enlightening the Past: The Phoenix (Arizona) Illuminating Gas & Electric Light Company; Gravity Unloading of (Horse-drawn) Carts & Wagons: A Century of Experimentation.
Vol. 29, No. 1 (2003) Theme Issue: Waterpower, the Lachine Canal, and the Industrial Development of Montreal, Canada; Behind the Scene of the Lachine Canal Landscape (Factors of Montreal and Canadian Industrialization, The Canal's Construction: A Matter of Context, A Quick Tour of the Canal, Montreal, a Reservoir of Manpower, Montreal: Turntable for Continental Transportation, Manufacturing Production in Canada, Lachine Canal Complex: Manufacturing Production, Industry and Navigation, Navigation and Naval Construction, Pollution and Public Health Issues); Navigation and Waterpower: Adaptation and Technology on Canadian Canals (Role of Waterpower in Canada, Location and Spatial Organization of Mills along Canals, Welland Canal, Cornwall Canal, Williamsburg Canal, Beauharnois Canal, Impact of the Use of Waterpower on Canals, Waterwheels and Their Improvement, Persistence of Direct-Drive Waterpower); Steam or Water Power ? Thomas C. Keefer and the Engineers Discuss the Montreal Waterworks in 1852; A Precipitous Decline, Steam as a Motive Power in Montreal: A Case Study of the Lachine Canal Industries (From "Little Lowell" to "Smoky Valley", The Coal Market: Beyond John Dales's Interpretation, Domination of Steam in Montreal: 1870s to WW1, Thermoelectricity, Steam or Hydroelectricity) .
Vol. 29. No. 2 (2003) Gold and Tailings: The Standard Mill at Bodie, California (The Metallurgical Challenge of Extracting Gold from Ore, Origins of the Bodie District, Development of the California Stamp Mill, Professional Engineers Continue Standard's Success, The New Standard Mill, Improvements to the Standard Mill for Treating Tailings, The Closing Years of the Standard Mill); Cutting it Back and Burning it Back: Archaeological Investigations of Charcoal Production in the Missouri Ozarks (The Missouri Iron Industry, Nova Scotia Ironworks Historic Mining District, Charcoal Production, Summary of Investigations, Charcoal Pits, Structures); Heads, Tails, and Decisions In-Between: The Archaeology of Mining Wastes (Mining and Milling in the Bremner District, Alaska, Environmental Characterizations and Archaeological Investigations at Bremner).
Vol. 30, No. 1 (2004) Designing American Lenticular Truss Bridges 1878-1900 (About the American Lenticular Truss Bridges, Comparison of the Smithfield Street (Pittsburg, PA) and Bardwell’s Ferry (MA) Bridges, Analysis for Lenticular Trusses, Pauli Truss, Analysis and Design of American Lenticular Trusses); A Large Business: The Clintonville (NY) Site, Resources, and Scale at Adirondack Bloomery Forges (The Adirondacks and Bloom Iron Production, Location, Resources and Scale, Power, Charcoal, Ore Sources, Scale of Operation, Archaeology at Clintonville’s Lower Forge, Charcoal Braze Storage, Trip Hammers and Waterwheel Pit, Bloomery Forges, Blacksmith Forge, Operational Reconfiguration, additional small artifacts found); 68pp.
Vol. 30, No. 2 (2004) The “Poor Man’s Mill”: A Rich Vernacular Legacy (About Arrastras, an ancient ore milling device made cheaply of local materials & operated with many types of power sources, A Primer on Arrastra Design & Operations, Historical Trends & Economic Niches, Design Evolution, Case study at Canone Mine (near Amador City, California); The Locomotives at Betchworth Lime Works in Southern England (about locomotives used at limestone quarries & kilns in Betchworth, Surrey, England, constructed as vertical-boiler locomotive by Fletcher, Jennings & Company, Limestone at Betchworth, The Standard Gauge Railway & its locomotives, A visit to Betchworth in 1958, Preservation at Betchworth); 60pp.

Vol. 31, No. 1 (2005) Extant Approach Spans of the Dunleith & Dubuque Bridge; Surplus Water, Hybrid Power Systems, and Industrial Expansion in Lowell (MA); GPR & Archaeological Excavations at the West Point Foundry, NY.

Vol. 31, No. 2 (2005) Evaluating Authenticity: Reconstructed Timber Swing Bridges; The F. & H. Benning Company Grinding Mill: A Case Study; Trace Elements Constraints on the Source of Silica Sand used by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Co.
Vol. 32, No. 1 (2006) Troubled Waters: Timbisha Shoshone, Miners, and Dispossession at Warm Springs (Death Valley, California); Industrial Archaeology and Enviromental Assessments; Sugar Mills, Technology, and Enviromental Change: A Case Study of Colonial Agro-Industrial Development in the Caribbean.
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