The world's first iron bridge was built there in 1779 by Abraham Darby III.
Ditherington Flax Mill, built in 1797, is the world's first iron-framed building and regarded as the forerunner to the skyscraper.
English Heritage said the Grade I-listed Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury, built in 1797, was the world's first iron-framed building.
Built in 1797, the Ditherington Flax Mill was the world's first iron-framed building and has been derelict for more than 20 years.
In 1859, the first iron-hulled armored warship, Britain's HMS Warrior, was launched.
The Grade-I listed Ditherington Flax Mill was the world's first iron-framed building and is considered one of the most important on the English Heritage At Risk register.
William Le Baron Jenney, the architect who constructed the world's first iron-and-steel-framed building in the 1880s, set up shop in Chicago, training a crop of architects that pushed the city skyward through internal frames.
What do you think about the news that the sequel might be once again mining the comic book storyline Extremis (the first Iron Man film included a lot of adaptation from the story as well), dear readers?
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On the road back to Rio, we stop underneath a spectacular old iron railway bridge - "the first curved iron bridge in the world, " Mauricio informs me, with some pride.
This will map for the first time iron, magnesium, aluminium and silicon over the moon's entire surface.
The structure contained the first rolled iron beams, developed and manufactured by Peter Cooper in anticipation of the metal-framed skyscraper.
If you're not a kid, though, or if you want to keep your memories of the first "Iron Man" unsullied, beware of the buzz and hubbub, and the glowing reviews.
Instead, four of the top five slots were occupied by people who made their money from the mining boom - Ivan Glasenberg, Andrew Forrest, Clive Palmer, and, at the very top, Gina Rinehart, Australia's first lady of iron ore.
There, he has to go back to the basics as a mechanic in a garage (mirroring the scenes in the first half of Iron Man), repairing his broken armor and psyche in order to come back from defeat, to reveal himself as alive and better than ever after all.
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The bridge at Ironbridge, the world's first bridge constructed of iron, had a considerable influence on developments in the fields of technology and architecture.
Both were widely compared to Iron Man when the first film revitalized the character in 2008.
Iron Man 3 is first up, and its global blockbuster status is guaranteed.
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The Iron Duke was the first machine in the UK used to roll sheet rubber and cotton together and vulcanise them to make waterproof fabric.
Tickets for concerts in Brazil are due to go on sale next week -- along with seats for four concerts which are still to be announced, in four more countries, two of which will host Iron Maiden for the first time.
This iron-deficiency theory was first postulated in the 1930's by English scientist Joseph Hart.
I'd been diagnosed with low iron before, but the first surprised me, as I have always been a big leafy-green vegetable eater.
First, the seemingly insatiable global demand for iron ore and coal, especially from China.
But it is a nice object lesson in the basic economic proposition first put forward by David Ricardo as the Iron Law of One Price.
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Cardiff's first-half dominance was unquestionable and the Iron were handed a mountain to climb early on as the Bluebirds, boosted by the return of previously rested Bellamy, broke the deadlock with their quickest goal of the season.
He described how the first phase of repairing the palace's cast iron roofs had been "more difficult than expected".
In early February a classic snow-machine race, the 2, 000-mile Iron Dog, was cancelled for the first time in its 20-year history.
Meanwhile, at the Sino Iron site the latest deadline nears for first shipment from a project which still faces two big challenges.
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When I first became ill I was not only put into an iron lung, I was also given a tracheostomy (hole in my throat).
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