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Sheffield steel and America : a century of commercial and technological interdependence, 1830-1930

Title: Sheffield steel and America : a century of commercial and technological interdependence, 1830-1930 / Geoffrey Tweedale.
Author: Tweedale, Geoffrey.
Publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

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Description

xv, 296 pages; 24 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 263-287.

Contents

SPECIAL STEEL TECHNOLOGY: The birth of the American crucible steel industry -- Science and art: Sheffield and American crucible steel technologies contrasted -- The response to a new technology electric steelmaking -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIAL STEELS: The rise of alloy steels -- The evolution of high speed steel -- Contrary to nature the discovery of stainless steel -- SHEFFIELD STEELMAKERS AND TOOLMAKERS IN AMERICA: Transatlantic special steels I the crucible steelmakers -- The rise and decline of Sheffield's high speed steel trade with America, 1900-30 -- Transatlantic special steels II steel casting enterprises -- Quality pays? Sheffield and American cutlery manufacture -- Innovation and adaptation the evidence of the sawmaking trades -- Men versus machines the story of the file -- How Sheffield lost the American trade aspects of the marketing of Sheffield products in America.

ISBN

0521334586
9780521334587

LCCN

86026433

OCLC

ocm14411580
14411580
SCSB-1170199

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library