Here’s a rose-colored look into the steelworks at Workington, Cumbria in northern England. At the time of filming in 1974, this plant had been manufacturing steel nonstop for 102 years using the ...

1856: Englishman Henry Bessemer receives a U.S. patent for a new steel-making process that revolutionizes the industry. The Bessemer converter was a squat, ugly, clay-lined crucible that simplified ...

One of the most important materials in today’s world is steel. It has become an integral building block in humanity’s ever-expanding domain on Earth and lets us build everything from towering ...

PROF. CARPENTER is evidently right, and I am glad that he has corrected my mistake in reference to the Bessemer converter,—the statement as to the Leblanc process was, I believe, correct. It would be ...

IN a review in the issue of NATURE of November 17, p. 716, of the second volume of Roscoe and Schorlemmer's “Treatise on Chemistry,” the following sentences occur:—“The revisers have been perhaps a ...