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From: "Gerry Michael via Groups.Io" <gerald_michael=verizon.net@groups.io>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:04:23 -0400
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I did a little poking around on the Internet and found few items that might be of interest.

A short article on the "History of Corrugated Iron" at https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/history-of-corrugated-iron/
A few excerpts from the article:
"The story starts with Henry Palmer of the London Dock Company who, in 1829, took out a patent for ‘indented or corrugated metallic sheets’. "
" By the end of 1849, over 80,000 gold diggers and their hangers-on had arrived in California’s Sacremento Valley. San Francisco was ‘a bawdy, bustling, bedlam of mudholes and shanties’. Prefabricated wooden huts and tents sprouted but corrugated iron buildings were cheaper, fireproof and much more comfortable, according to Peter Naylor who shipped 500 of them from  New York. British manufacturers were not slow off the mark. Edward T Bellhouse of Manchester sent houses of up to 12 rooms, complete with wallpaper and carpets. As the Californian market declined, the Australian gold rush kicked in."
The article is based on a book entitled Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier by Adam Mornement and Simon Holloway.
 
Another article at http://www.buffaloah.com/h/elev/hist/3/ has a section on the motivation for using corrugated iron siding for grain elevators:  fireproofing and the relative costs of both the building materials and associated fire insurance.  The article also notes that timber prices began to rise in the 1890s, which would also effect the relative costs of wood vs. corrugated iron.

Gerry Michael

On 4/15/2019 1:48 AM, Denny Anspach wrote:
Some question has been raised about how early industrial  corrugated iron siding, i.e. “wrinkle tin" came into use.  The gargantuan  former Sacramento SP Boiler Shop was constructed new with corrugated iron siding in 1887.  This landmark building with its old siding intact (connected by working transfer table to the 26 bay Erecting Shop) is now a connected part of the California State Railroad Museum (as will be soon the Erecting Shop as well).

Denny

Denny S. Anspach, MD
Sacramento, CA 95864




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