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IMPROVING THE BARREL IRON PRODUCTION IN THE URAL MINING PLANTS IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY

2025· article· en· W4414208290 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueUral Historical Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicGeotechnical and Geomechanical Engineering
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBarrel (horology)Production (economics)Quarter (Canadian coin)Precious metalQuality (philosophy)Nonferrous metalPeacetime

Abstract

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The article, based on materials from federal and regional archives, describes the problems in the production of iron for gun barrels in the Ural mining plants in the second quarter of the 19th century. It is noted that the mining industry enterprises have been supplying the weapons factories with metal since the 18th century. Despite the approval in the early 19th century of regulatory acts defining the requirements for the properties and dimensions of iron, and quality control by representatives of the military department, no special rules for its acceptance have been developed. The lack of clear verification requirements led to the fact that weapons factories received a significant amount of iron of unsatisfactory quality, unsuitable for gunsmiths to weld barrels. As a result, the amount of defective metal increased, and the debt of mining plants to the military department grew. The mining and military departments began to pay attention to the problem of improving the barrel iron production in the 1820s. Special committees of representatives from both departments developed rules for testing iron, but they were not included in the new instructions for accepting military products from mining plants in 1831. Their development dragged on until the mid-1840s. Improvements in the technology for barrel iron production were made through experiments conducted by both the military department and the Ural mining plants. As a result, during the period under study, it was not possible to obtain iron suitable for weapons factories.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.552
Threshold uncertainty score0.499

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.172
Teacher spread0.167 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it