Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 467
tion Bessemer at a stroke dismissed along series of troublesome processes long believed to be as un-avoidable as winters cold. He did away with the smelting ofpig iron, the rolling, shearing and piling of bars, and the heatingfurnace. From the beginning of the Bessemer manufacture to 406 SIR HENRY… … iron it has replaced. A rail laid at Crewe Station in 1863, weigh-ing twenty pounds to the yard, was turned in 1866 and taken up in1875; it was estimated that 72,000,000 tons had passed over it,while the greatest wear of its tables was but .85 inch. GLASS-MAKING 407 Bessemer did not at once enter…
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