Greybeard Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 There's a good image of a dead American Bessemer furnace here.... http://www.americantrails.org/nationalrecreationtrails/images3/GAPElizaFurnace_png.jpg ...and a very active one here... http://www.mahoninghistory.org/images/bmaalbum007.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Posted April 11, 2005 Author Share Posted April 11, 2005 Thanks for putting me right Greybeard. Bessemers partner was called Longsdon. Among other things he was an architect, and he designed and built the whole shebang, in white stone, topped by a white chimney. So that was the color before everything got so mucky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 Texas, if you'd care to read Bessemer's autobiography the whole book is available on-line at.... http://www.history.rochester.edu/ehp-book/shb/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Posted April 12, 2005 Author Share Posted April 12, 2005 Coincidental you should mention that Greybeard, I was going to mention the same URL to you. Thanks for the thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vidster Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 The Fred Dibnah program is on BBC2 tonight at 8:30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owdlad Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 Originally posted by vidster The Fred Dibnah program is on BBC2 tonight at 8:30 I bet Freds not doing the show live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extaxman Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 I have just had a look at one of my old Sheffield books published in 1879 and there is quite a lot about Bessemer Steel. Apparently the usual steel making method in Sheffield before Bessemer took nearly thirty days, the Bessemer process took thirty minutes. In 1879 the production in Sheffield (on Carlisle St) was 12,000 tons per week, total English production was 50,000 tons per week "and the production in the United States of America and Europe is also great". At that time the steel was used for "rails, tyres, axles, piston-rods and spindles" There is a three page description of how the steel is made but it would take me weeks to type it in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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