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=='''Port Novo Iron Works'''==
[[File:Porto Novo Iron Works 1848.jpg|thumb| Porto Novo Iron Works 1848]]
<blockquote>In c.1830 a Mr Heath, then Agent for the East India Company (EIC) proposed the manufacture of iron based on the mineral deposits of magnetic oxide near [[Salem]] <ref name=IndEng>[https://archive.org/stream/indianengineerin02calcuoft#page/368/mode/1up "Indian Engineering", December 3rd 1887, vol 2, pages 368-369]; Retrieved  30 Sep 2016</ref>.


Following trials the Mr Heath formed a Company with works at [[Porto Novo]] on the Coromandel Coast at the mouth of the Vellur River to produce high quality manganese iron <ref name=IndEng/>.
The ores were prepared near [[Salem]] and conveyed by water to [[Porto Novo]]. The charcoal for the works was obtained from the extensive jungle at the mouth of the Coleroon River<ref name=IndEng/>.
The Works thus became the first Iron Works in India  <ref name=wiki>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parangipettai Wikipedia “Parangipettai” (formerly Porto Novo)]; Retrieved  30 Sep 2016</ref>.
After three years, in which Heath’s Iron Works produced pig iron of the highest  quality, yet remained unprofitable, the company was saved from bankruptcy by an advance from the Madras Presidency, who renamed the works ‘The Indian Iron and Steel Company’. Following further financial difficulties the Madras Presidency intervened again in 1853, at which time the company was reinstated as ‘The East India Iron Company’, this fared little better and closed permanently in 1874 <ref>[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Njf7CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT24&lpg=PT24&dq=Porto+Novo+Iron+Works+Railway&source=bl&ots=2vBF5WDdVB&sig=ml0aKUOwARQkxbPqIc-Ah-rDN2Y&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhqdbFtOnOAhXBcBoKHeS3CkkQ6AEIPzAG#v=onepage&q=Porto%20Novo%20Iron%20Works%20Railway&f=false Google Books “Criminal Capital: Violence, Corruption and Class in Industrial India” by Andrew Sanchez page 24]; Retrieved  30 Sep 2016</ref>.
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=='''Locomotive Experiments'''==
<blockquote>Captain  [[Arthur Thomas Cotton]] of the [[Madras Engineers]] started experiments with steam engines in the middle of the 1830’s. He first took measurements from a static steam engine which was used to break rocks at the annicut being built across the Coleroon River about 35miles down river from [[Trichinopoly]]. The machine had been built by experiment and operated at a low pressure of 30lb/ft. It was effective and raised the hammer 30 times a minute. Which was about 1:37th HP. The experiments carried out showed what happened when cylinders sizes were altered along with the orifice sizes <ref name=Smith>[https://play.google.com/store/books/details/John_Thomas_Smith_Reports_correspondence_and_origi?id=O5BeAAAAcAAJ “Reports, correspondence and original papers on various professional subjects connected with the duties of the Corps of Engineers, Madras Presidency, arranged  by Capt. John Thomas Smith. T. Smith]; Retrieved  30 Sep 2016</ref>
With this information they arranged further experiments at the Port Novo Iron Works. On the 5th May 1838 they started, by 31st May they had the workings of a locomotive. This unit never ran on rails but was used to power a lathe. It was calculated that the locomotive would run up to 22.5 mph (35Km/h) <ref name=Smith/>.
These experiments were important in the developing the [[Red Hill Railroad]] at [[Chintadripet]] by Captain  [[Arthur Thomas Cotton]]  which was constructed by in 1836 and opened 1837 for the conveying of  granite to be used as road-building material. It was the first railway in India.</blockquote>
==References==
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