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Author: C. Bodsworth
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2024-11-01
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1040281842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, illustrated with many photographs and drawings, commemorates the centenary of the death of Sir Henry Bessemer, one of the outstanding inventors of the 19th century.
Author: Henry Bessemer
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 516
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sir Henry Bessemer
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jason Burnett
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738588032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1887, iron and steel magnate Henry Fairchild DeBardeleben founded Bessemer and named it for English inventor Sir Henry Bessemer. DeBardeleben's dream was to make the city a steel center that would attract companies and people from all over the United States. Bessemer, like nearby Birmingham, is located within a few miles of all raw materials needed to make steel (coal, limestone, and iron ore). DeBardeleben bought 4,040 acres of land and marked off blocks for the town along Alabama Great Southern Railroad lines. With $2 million in starting capital, he built several blast furnaces for his coal and iron company. Within three years, Bessemer was Alabama's eighth largest city. The population grew so rapidly that Bessemer was nicknamed "The Marvel City." The town quickly developed a thriving business district, beautiful neighborhoods, recreations ranging from parks to boating and dances at Westlake, and industries that spread iron, coal, and railcars across the nation.
Author: Sir Henry Bessemer
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Limited
Published: 1905
Total Pages: 444
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint. Originally published: London: Offices of Engineering, 1905.
Author: Sarah Knowles Bolton
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-04-25
Total Pages: 257
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, so that the youth who read this book may see that poverty is no barrier to success. It usually develops ambition, and nerves people to action. Life at best has much of struggle, and we need to be cheered and stimulated by the careers of those who have overcome obstacles. If Lincoln and Garfield, both farmer-boys, could come to the Presidency, then there is a chance for other farmer-boys. If Ezra Cornell, a mechanic, could become the president of great telegraph companies, and leave millions to a university, then other mechanics can come to fame. If Sir Titus Salt, working and sorting wool in a factory at nineteen, could build one of the model towns of the world for his thousands of workingmen, then there is encouragement and inspiration for other toilers in factories. These lives show that without work and will no great things are achieved.
Author: Philip W. Bishop
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-07-31
Total Pages: 53
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Beginnings of Cheap Steel" by Philip W. Bishop. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: W.H. Chaloner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-01-10
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1351247247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr Chaloner considers economic history to be a branch of what the French call the historical sciences and believes that it is impossible to treat usefully of the rise, decline and metamorphosis of industries and economics without some consideration of the part played by the efforts of individual men and women in these processes. In this collection of essays, first published in 1963, he provides biographies of certain entrepreneurs, inventors and engineers together with historical surveys of some vital industries.
Author: Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
Published: 2009-10-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1615300422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf necessity is indeed the mother of invention, then the individuals profiled in this volume should be considered the most laudable of all midwives. They each saw a need and met it. Readers will learn more about the lives and methodologies of well-known inventors such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison, and become familiar with several more whose creations have sometimes outstripped their personal fame.
Author: Sam Kean
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2017-07-18
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0316381632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Guardian's Best Science Book of 2017: the fascinating science and history of the air we breathe. It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth and our existence on it. With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds on the Senate floor, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding; in fact, you're probably inhaling some of it now. Of the sextillions of molecules entering or leaving your lungs at this moment, some might well bear traces of Cleopatra's perfumes, German mustard gas, particles exhaled by dinosaurs or emitted by atomic bombs, even remnants of stardust from the universe's creation. Tracing the origins and ingredients of our atmosphere, Kean reveals how the alchemy of air reshaped our continents, steered human progress, powered revolutions, and continues to influence everything we do. Along the way, we'll swim with radioactive pigs, witness the most important chemical reactions humans have discovered, and join the crowd at the Moulin Rouge for some of the crudest performance art of all time. Lively, witty, and filled with the astounding science of ordinary life, Caesar's Last Breath illuminates the science stories swirling around us every second.
