Eminent engineers; brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress (1906)
Goddard, Dwight, 1861-1939 · New York, The Derry-Collard company · leaf 274
she finallyadopted his process in her arsenals, and not until 1879was the honor of knighthood tardily conferred upon him. The year before his invention of steel-making waspresented, England made 50,000 tons of steel at a sellingprice of $250 to $300 a ton. By 1882 the output hadincreased to…
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