The British Iron & Steel Industry: A Technical History |
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The British Iron & Steel Industry: A Technical History Walter Keith Vernon Gale No preview available - 1967 |
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alloy steels automatic beam Bessemer converter Bessemer process billet Black Country blast furnace bloom bloomery blowing bosh Britain British carbon steel cast iron charcoal charging cinder coal coke cold continuous cooling Cort's crucible decarburization eighteenth century electric fact fettling finery finished fire fuel gases hearth heat helve hole hot blast important ingots invention iron and steel iron or steel iron trade ironmaking ironworks machine manganese material mechanical melting mild steel molten iron molten metal mould Mushet nace needed nineteenth century open-hearth furnace open-hearth process operation output oxide oxygen pass patent phosphorus piece of iron pig bed pig iron plate production puddler puddling furnace quantities re-rolling reverberatory furnace rolling mill scrap shape shear sheet shingling Siemens slag slitting mill Staffordshire steam engine steel industry steelmaking steelworks success tapping technical tilt hammer tons tuyere vacuum waste wide strip wrought iron