home of the cast iron skillet. Bound on one side by the Tennessee River and on the others by thick Appalachian woods, South Pittsburg (population 3,100) has one supermarket, two bars, some 20 ...

Cast iron, which involves pouring liquid metal into casting molds, freed artisans to mass-produce intricate patterns advertised in pattern books across the nation. Cast iron, which involves ...

Machan Engineering were the only foundry in the UK to make the traditional cast-iron pillar boxes. The company had supplied Royal Mail since the 1980s and used to get 150 orders a year.