structure evolved from a prehistoric form containing the essential core and crucible.' The transition from the mid-fifteenth century European blast furnace to the early nineteenth century charcoal furnace of Pennsylvania was gradual. Technological changes occurred chiefly in the shape and size of the

anthracite fuel in its puddling furnaces.11 Availability of bituminous coal and coke from western Pennsylvania at Lancaster, Columbia and Marietta suggests the possibility of their use in puddling furnaces in Lancaster County after the Pennsylvania Railroad was completed across the state in 1854. 12 In fact

whose loyalty to the monarch was unquestioned, the office of coroner (literally, king's man) was created, and that official was authorized to serve in place of the sheriff if the latter was removed from office. To this day, Pennsylvania coroners have that ancient authority although it is used rarely if

for its beauty and the purity of �1662 Co. Poor & House L EMPLOYMENT House of _ - Electrotune Pa. Phila. Map taken from "Survey and Plot" for Commissioners of Lancaster County, December 1877. �of its waters. The City of Lancaster being on the line of the Pennsylvania Rail- road, and of the Columbia

Installation of The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens In the Pennsylvania Hall of Fame An address by John Ward Willson Loose 16 November 1974 at Founders Hall, Girard College, Philadelphia Ladies and gentlemen, officers, judges, and guests of the Penn- sylvania Hall of Fame's Third Annual Banquet: I am pleased

, and iron. The retorts were 9 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 2 feet high. Dr. Davis designed the flues so that the heat encircles the retort thrice before being exhausted. To prevent gases from the body escaping into the atmosphere, they passed through more than 100 feet of flues heated to a temperature

structure will be ruined. A month later Schreiber informed Pennsylvania Adjutant General Arm- strong that more chimneys had fallen, and that Frederick Kuhn was salvaging the bricks from the chimneys and gable ends. The sketch by Atlee is reproduced here with new lines replacing the faint original draft. A