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The development of the world's productive resources during the 19th century, accelerated in general by major innovations in the field of power, transportation, and textiles, was retarded by the occurrence of certain bottlenecks. One of these affected the flow of suitable and economical raw materials to the machine tool and transportation industries: in spite of a rapid growth of iron production, the methods of making steel remained as they were in the previous century; and outputs remained negligible | Beginnings of Cheap Steel by Philip W. Bishop 1 Beginnings of Cheap Steel by Philip W. Bishop Project Gutenberg s The Beginnings of Cheap Steel by Philip W. Bishop This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Beginnings of Cheap Steel Author Philip W. Bishop Release Date August 8 2009 EBook 29633 Language English Beginnings of Cheap Steel by Philip W. Bishop Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 2 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BEGINNINGS OF CHEAP STEEL Produced by Chris Curnow Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY PAPER 3 THE BEGINNINGS OF CHEAP STEEL Philip w. Bishop STEEL BEFORE THE 1850 s 29 BESSEMER AND HIS COMPETITORS 30 ROBERT MUSHET 33 EBBW VALE AND THE BESSEMER PROCESS 35 MUSHET AND BESSEMER 37 WILLIAM KELLY S AIR-BOILING PROCESS 42 CONCLUSIONS 46 THE BEGINNINGS OF CHEAP STEEL By Philip W. Bishop Other inventors claimed a part in the invention of the Bessemer process of making steel. Here the contemporary discussion in the technical press is re-examined to throw light on the relations of these various claimants to the iron and steel industry of their time as having a possible connection with the antagonism shown by the ironmasters toward Bessemer s ideas. THE AUTHOR Philip w. Bishop is curator of arts and manufactures Museum of History and Technology in the Smithsonian Institution s United States National Museum. The development of the world s productive resources during the 19th century accelerated in general by major innovations in the field of power transportation and textiles was retarded by the occurrence of certain bottlenecks. One of these affected the flow of suitable and economical raw materials to the machine tool and transportation .