The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 560
practical diffi-culties of the process by the addition to the metal to beconverted of spiegelsisen, and thenceforward his patentwas a success. But the public had lost confidence inhim, owing to his frequent failures, and refused to havedealings with him. Thereupon he started a small estab-hshment… … BESSEMEE STEEL. 557 world. Tlie main principle of his process is the blowingof a blast of air or steam through molten pig iron untilthe desired decarburization is produced. There aremany processes of making steel which are akin to thosein use in the Bessemer works. Krupps steel is widelyknown. It…
Inventions · Inventors
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
