What is "steelwork"

Usage examples of "steelwork".

There was a brief burst of intolerable flame: the massive steelwork flickered once at the edge of the visible spectrum and was gone.

Her angular steelwork, with its flat abrupt surfaces from which rose the tall turret, still gave her the ugly old-maidish silhouette, but there was a new majesty in the way she plunged forward her bright Ethiopian colours fluttered gaily as a cavalry pennant and the high thin, rimmed wheels spurned the sandy earth like the hooves of a thoroughbred.

Likewise in burnished steelwork sunshine-dipt: So ranks the second line refulgently.

It listed closings and layoffs: a felt-skirt factory, a picture-frame factory, a glass-cutting establishment, a steelworks factory.

He built a fence 3 miles long and 12 feet high around the steelworks and topped it with barbed wire, adding peepholes for rifles.

Two enemy regiments were holding out in the steelworks and had so far refused to be dislodged.

Staring up at the shattered walls of the steelworks, it slowly dawned on me what it would mean if the factory fell.

In spite of our payments for freed slaves, despite the founding of mills, steelworks, even gunmakers, there is still an element that will not accept the new South.

I had visited steelworks and the like during the manufacture of components of my own Time Machine, and earlier devices: I had watched molten iron run from the blast-furnaces into Bessemer converters, there to be oxidized and mixed with spiegel and carbon.

Ships were no longer made entirely of wood, so steelworks and oil refineries arose to build the battleships and freighters of the steam era.

Though the steelworks are all individually owned, the towns themselves were set up by a landlord who owns everything save the businesses.

I had taken a bubble car to drive out to one of the steelworks, with a reliable driver.

This was the time of the unlimited belief in progress, and Queen Victoria sat with the sleeping lions at her feet and watched benevolently how the sky was darkened by smoke from railways and steelworks.

Soon women held a wide array of jobs that were traditionally bastions of male power, such as those in steelworking, heavy production, and shiploading.