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Cast iron is a material, characteristics of which enable to receive extremely artistic elements. It maintains good strength properties at the same time. That combination of these seemingly contrary traits makes it a commodity that was widely used in the 19th century industry and architecture. These usages were not only as decorative elements, technical and structural ones. The production of new household utilities started, which made people’s lives more comfortable. Cast iron allowed for fast and cheap production while maintaining high aesthetic qualities. Useful elements, which often were ornamental parts of buildings were created. The aim of the article is to characterise elements of interior equipment of the 19th century building that are made of cast iron. As it appears from performed bibliography, archival and field studies, the ways of exploitation are very broad. Some were mounted into the building; the others were a mobile equipment. As it occurred they were most commonly used as functional items. Cast iron was used to produce the minor elements, which were only parts of the bigger wooden or stone items. Notwithstanding, there were also bigger ones casted as a whole, and frequently ones that were assembled from many elements. Nowadays, elements of an interior feature are one of the subjects of study during the restoration work of the buildings. They can provide important information about the building and the way people lived and are considered as the essential part of historical objects.
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1088/1757-899X/245/4/042086
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- publikacja w in. zagranicznym czasopiśmie naukowym (tylko język obcy)
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IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
no. 245,
pages 1 - 11,
ISSN: 1757-8981 - Title of issue:
- World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium (WMCAUS) strony 1 - 11
- ISSN:
- 1757-8981
- Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Bibliographic description:
- Kwasek M., Piwek A.. Cast iron in the 19th-century building equipment. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2017, Vol. 245, iss. 4, s.1-11
- DOI:
- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1088/1757-899x/245/4/042086
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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