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Bessemer process
About: Bessemer process is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 121 publications have been published within this topic receiving 642 citations.
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TL;DR: A Nation of Steel as mentioned in this paper explores the complex interactions between steelmaking and the rise of the industries that have characterized modern America, from the age of railroads through the building of the first battleships to the first skyscrapers.
Abstract: From the age of railroads through the building of the first battleships, from the first skyscrapers to the dawning of the age of the automobile, steelmakers proved central to American industry, building, and transportation. In 'A Nation of Steel' Thomas Misa explores the complex interactions between steelmaking and the rise of the industries that have characterized modern America. Misa begins by showing how the transcontinental railroads' unprecedented demand for massive quantities of steel rails in the 1870s and 1880s led to the production of high-volume but low-quality Bessemer steel, and how that development influenced the American steel industry to this day. He describes how urbanization, including new building codes, led to changes in steel production that made possible the first American skyscrapers. And he explains why steel armor plate for battleships came to cost fifteen times more per ton than steel for rails, and how that discrepancy made Carnegie and Bethlehem the industry's leading companies. Subsequent chapters describe the increasing role played by the new science of metallurgy; the link between the invention of high-speed tool steel and the "efficiency craze"; and how demands of the automobile makers for a novel, high-tech consumer product gave rise to production of large volumes of high-quality steel. 'A Nation ofSteel' offers a detailed and fascinating look at an industry that has had a profound impact on American life.
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Book•
1 Jan 1959
TL;DR: Sheffield and its industry at the mid-Century: Sheffield in 1850 The Sheffield light trades at the onset of the age of steam The steel industry before Bessemer Mid-Victorian Expansion and the Great Depression, 1850-1893: Sheffield at the time of its industrial revolution The end of the golden age of the Sheffield trades The birth of the modern steel industry The End of an Epoch,1893 -1914: Sheffield as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Sheffield and Its Industry at the Mid-Century: Sheffield in 1850 The Sheffield light trades at the onset of the age of steam The steel industry before Bessemer Mid-Victorian Expansion and the Great Depression, 1850-1893: Sheffield at the time of its industrial revolution The end of the golden age of the Sheffield trades The birth of the modern steel industry The End of an Epoch,1893 -1914: Sheffield at the close of the age of liberalism The light industries in transition Steel, engineering and armaments The War and the Inter-War Period, 1914-39: Sheffield in war and in depression Boom and slump in the heavy industries The light trades in depression Appendices: Appendix A: earnings in the Sheffield industries, 1914 -39 Appendix B: statistical appendix.
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TL;DR: The most notable single instance of entrepreneurship failure was the neglect of the basic process in the British iron and steel industry as discussed by the authors, and the shift to Basic Ores was a major reason for the failure.
Abstract: 1. The Iron and Steel Industry and the Hypothesis of Entrepreneurial Failure A. The Historiographic Career of the Hypothesis of Failure B. The Quantitative Evidence for Britain as a Whole C. The Relevance of the Experience in Iron and Steel D. Assessing Entrepreneurial Performance in Iron and Steel 2. The Market Structure of the Industry A. Cycles in Monopoly Power from 1870 to 1913 B. Monopoly Power among Regions of the Country C. Competition and the Hypothesis of Failure 3. The Industry's Consumers and the Industry's Growth A. The Slow Growth of Demand B. The Substitution of Steel for Iron 4. The "Most Notable Single Instance" of Entrepreneurial Failure: The Neglect of the Basic Process A. Was the Neglect of Basic Ores Irrational? B. The Shift to Basic Steel 5. Productivity Change, 1870-1913 A. The Material-Intensity and Capital-Lightness of the Industry B. Pig Iron C. Bessemer Steel Rails D. Open Hearth Steel Ship Plates 6. Was Productivity Change More Rapid in the American Industry? A. Productivity Change in American Iron and Steel B. Slow Growth and Antique Technology in Steel 7. American and British Productivity before 1913 A. Levels of Productivity B. How Well British Entrepreneurs Performed Appendices A. Sources for Estimating U.K. Gross National Product and Inputs of Capital and Labor B. The Prices of British Iron and Steel C. The Input and Output Structure of the British Iron and Steel Industry in 1907 D. Sources and Methods for Productivity Measurement in Pig Iron Index
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Patent•
30 Jul 1940
TL;DR: In this article, a method for treating baths of molten metal with gases was proposed, which relates more particularly to methods of and apparatus for treating molten iron with concentrated oxygen in a Bessemer converter.
Abstract: This invention relates to methods of and apparatus for treating baths of molten metal with gases and relates more particularly to methods of and apparatus for treating molten iron with concentrated oxygen in a Bessemer converter. It has previously been suggested from time to time by workers...
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