Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S. : an autobiography : with a concluding chapter.

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1. Verfasser: Bessemer, Henry Sir, 1813-1898
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London : Offices of Engineering, 1905.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Preface
  • Early days
  • The reward of invention
  • Compressing plumbago dust, casting type, type-composing machine, etc
  • Utrecht velvet
  • The manufacture of bronze powder
  • Improvements in sugar manufacture
  • A holiday in Germany
  • Improvements in glass manufacture
  • The exhibition of 1851
  • Early gunnery experiments
  • The genesis of the Bessemer process
  • The Bessemer process
  • Bessemer steel and Colonel Eardley Wilmot
  • The Bessemer process and the War office
  • Bessemer steel: the Armstrong controversy
  • Bessemer steel guns
  • Cast steel for shipbuilding
  • Manganese in steel-making
  • Ebbw Vale
  • The Bessemer saloon steam-ship
  • Conclusion.