Identifier: factoryindustria35newy (find matches)
Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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BESSEMER FURNACE AT EDSKEN, At the time when the industrial world was startled by the firstannouncements of Mr., afterwards Sir Henry, Bessemers remarkableinvestigations, there was living in England Pontus Kleman, a Swedishmerchant and owner of ironworks at Dormsjo and Garpenberg. Kle-man was an enthusiastic believer in the future of the process, and,aided by drawings furnished by Bessemer and a compatriot engineer,named John Leffler, promptly erected at Dormsjo a furnace for thepurpose of continuing, on a sufficiently large scale, the English inven-tors experiments. The results achieved were far from satisfactory,and of a nature to justify much of the criticism aroused by Bessemersproposals. They failed, however, to convince Consul G. F. Goransson,then member of a firm of wholesale merchants which owned theHogbo iron works and Edsken blast furnace. He purchased in 1857Bessemers patent for Sweden, and for many months continued ex-
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PARTS OF THE SANDVIKEN IRON WORKS.Above, the forges and tire rolling mill; below, Bessemer converters. 690 INDUSTRIAL SWEDEN. 691 periments at Edsken with variable and inconclusive results. At length,on July 18, 1858, after certain modifications in the furnace, a blow-ing was made which verified the highest hopes founded on Bessemersmethod—the steel flowed easily, was of close grain, could readily betapped and, in test forging, showed excellent qualities.

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