 The Bessemer invention takes its rank with the great events which have changed the face of society since the Middle Ages. The invention of printing, the construction of the magnetic compass, the discovery of America and the introduction of the steam...  A Life of George Westinghouse - Page 319by Henry Goslee Prout, American Society of Mechanical Engineers - 1922 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1896 - 564 pages
...address by Mr. Abram S. Hewitt in 1890 ("Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers," Vol. xix, p. 518) : " The Bessemer invention takes its rank with the great...events which have changed the face of society since the Middle Ages. The invention of printing, the construction of the magnetic compass, the discovery of... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1896 - 570 pages
...address by Mr. Abram S. Hewitt in 1890 ("Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers," Vol. xix, p. 518): " The Bessemer invention takes its rank with the great...events which have changed the face of society since the Middle Ages. The invention of printing, the construction of the magnetic compass, the discovery of... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1896 - 578 pages
...address by Mr. Abram S. Hewitt in 1890 ("Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers," Vol. xix, p. 518) : " The Bessemer invention takes its rank with the great...events which have changed the face of society since the Middle Ages. The invention of printing, the construction of the magnetic compass, the discovery of... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1899 - 852 pages
...far-reaching in its effects and none reveals a greater man, than this invention of Bessemer's. It takes rank with the great events which have changed the...the introduction of the steam engine are the only events which belong to the same category. It may be high praise to class this invention with these... | |
 | American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Mechanical engineering - 1898 - 1122 pages
...YEARS. FIG. 207. Lastly, the Hon. Abram S. Hewitt : "A very few considerations will serve to show that the Bessemer invention takes its rank with the great...only capital events in modern history which belong to the same category as the Bessemer process. They are all examples of the law and progress which evolve... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Technology - 1900 - 292 pages
...for the introduction of the phenomenal " Bessemer" process, which, as the Hon. Abram S. Hewitt says, takes its rank with the great events which have changed...face of society since the time of the Middle Ages. At this time the machinists before alluded to were called to the front to brave the danger and fight... | |
 | John Fritz - Iron industry and trade - 1911 - 362 pages
...revolutionary in its character. The late Hon. Abram S. Hewitt refers to the Bessemer process as one that takes rank with the great events which have changed the face of society since the time of the Middle Ages. During the early excitement over the Bessemer steel rail made by Mushet from metal melted in common... | |
 | William Page - Great Britain - 1919 - 562 pages
...of Henry Bessemer, son of a French refugee, whose process of making steel J0 was a discovery that ' takes its rank with the ' great events which have changed the face of society.' ll The frequent replacing necessary in the case of iron rails would have been so costly as to have... | |
 | Great Britain - 1922 - 1492 pages
...the third has revolutionised the commercial history of the world. ' The invention [of Bessemer steel] takes its rank with the great events which have changed...only capital events in modern history which belong to the same category as the Bessemer process' (Addrest of the Han. Abram <S. Hewitt to the Iron and... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1899 - 750 pages
...far-reaching in its effects and none reveals a greater man, than this invention of Bessemer's. It takes rank with the great events which have changed the...the introduction of the steam engine are the only events which belong to the same category. It may be high praise to class this invention with these... | |
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