Blood and Iron (speech) iron chancellor." Blood and Iron (speech) Blood and Iron (German: "Blut und Eisen") is the name given to a speech made by Otto von Bismarck given on 30 September 1862, at the time when he was Minister President of Prussia, about the unification of the German territories. It is also a transposed phrase that Bismarck uttered near the end of the speech that has become one of his most widely known quotations. In September 1862, when the Prussian House of Representatives was refusing to approve an increase in military spending desired by King Wilhelm I, the monarch appointed Bismarck Minister
Allaire Iron Works Stoudinger built the engine and boiler for the last steamboat contracted for by the Fulton shop, the "Chancellor Livingstone", which was completed about a year later. Stoudinger himself died shortly after completion of "Chancellor Livingstone", after which Allaire decided to move Fulton's equipment from its location in New Jersey to his brassworks at Cherry St., New York. With the consolidation of his business at the Cherry St. plant, Allaire renamed it the Allaire Iron Works. In 1817, the Allaire Iron Works supplied the engine cylinder for "Savannah", the first steamship to make a transatlantic crossing. The cylinder, one of the