Crossword-Solution: CARRON 6 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The first furnace was blown at Carron on the first day of January, 1760; and in the course of the same year the Carron Iron Works turned out 1500 tons of iron, then the whole annual produce of Scotland.

The well-known Carronades,[2] or "Smashers," as they were named, were cast in large numbers at the Carron Works.

Smeaton, the engineer, who contrived and erected for him at Carron the most perfect apparatus of the kind then in existence.

The Carron Company, with a view to securing an improved communication with Glasgow, themselves surveyed a line, which was only given up in consequence of the determined opposition of the landowners; but the project was again revived through their means, and was eventually carried out after the designs of Smeaton and Brindley.

The English workmen whom he had brought; to the Carron works would, he justly thought, give Watt a better chance of success with his engine than if made by the clumsy whitesmiths and blacksmiths of Glasgow, quite unaccustomed as they were to first-class work; and he proposed himself to cast the cylinders at Carron previous to Watt's intended visit to him at Kinneil.