Creators of the Age of Steel
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- Author(s) Jeans, William T
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1884
- Pages 2nd ed; 348pp
- Publisher Chapman & Hall
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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First published 1884. Deals with 'heroic' inventors / entrepreneurs who made a substantial contribution to steelmaking, and some related areas, in the 'age of steel'. Covers Sir Henry Bessemer [pp10-131]; Sir William Siemens [pp132-213] in wide ranging chapters also touching on other uses of electricity for industrial purposes; Sir Joseph Whitworth [pp214-68] also including machine tools, improvements in heavy guns, and 'compressed steel'; Sir John Brown [pp269-98] including armoured plate and Atlas Works; Sidney G Thomas [pp299-316] including removal of phosphorous in ironmaking especially at Bolckow, Vaughan & Co, Cleveland Iron Works; and George J Snelus [pp317-35] including discovery of principle of dephosphorisation and reorganisation of West Cumberland Steel Works