Engineering · Materials Science & Engineering
A topic within Materials Science & Engineering, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Engineering.
2 works
Henry Bessemer
Announces that blowing air through molten pig iron burns out its carbon and impurities directly, without added fuel, converting iron to steel in minutes rather than days and making steel cheap enough to build with at structural scale.
Henry Marion Howe
Systematises the relationship between carbon content, heat treatment and the resulting microstructure of steel, turning steelmaking from craft practice governed by a smith's judgement into a subject with predictable, checkable rules.
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