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Charging Buggies, Robesonia Iron Furnace, Robesonia, PA, circa 1900.
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Photograph of Charging Buggies in a museum display.

Credit: The Pennsylvania State Archives

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, workers used large wheelbarrows called charging buggies to dump raw materials into the top of an iron furnace.

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