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Title: Men and things
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Atkinson, Henry Avery, b. 1877
Subjects: Working class -- United States Christian sociology
Publisher: New York : Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ture, is made into barrels;utilized in art work, so that the value of common ironwhen refined and drawn out to the highest possibleutility makes steel the most precious of all metals to-day.Watch-screws cost $1,600 a pound and hair springs twicethis amount. The Making of Steel. The workshop of civilizationis now on the west side of the Atlantic because of thevast manufacturing establishments producing steel onthis side of the ocean. The so-called Bessemer processin making steel has brought about a change that is almostas revolutionary in its far-reaching results as any of thegreat revolutions in the past. Within thirty years Amer-ican resources have been developed, and Americanmethods have been reorganized with such amazing rapid-ity that the United States has to-day, together with thenatural advantage, the means at hand for utilizing its al-most inexhaustible supplies of fuel and iron. The worldneeds these supplies and America is glad that she isable to do her part in supplying them.
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THE STEEL WORKERS 83 Steel has been made for centuries, but until a fewyears ago, the process was slow and costly, and the toolswith which the men worked were really treasures. Inthose days a pocket-knife was a thing of great value.The railroads used iron rails but these soon wore out.If it had been suggested that steel be used a protestwould have been made on the grounds that steel is tooexpensive. Trains had to be shortened; coaches andlocomotives built of light material because iron railsand bridges could not stand the strain. As land inthe cities became more valuable and taller buildings wereneeded, stone and brick not proving adaptable and tooexpensive, the Bessemer process, which manufacturedsteel cheaply and in great quantities, came to meet a long-felt need. Iron was plentiful but the process of con-verting it into steel had not been mastered. The greatdifficulty in manufacturing steel is to get just the rightproportion of carbon mixed with the iron. The Besse-mer system takes

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