William Kelly - ASME
2012年5月22日 · Also patented by Sir Henry Bessemer of Great Britain, this process produced the first inexpensive steel, which became the major construction material in the burgeoning industrial age. Kelly , who was born in 1811 in Pittsburgh, PA, entered the dry goods business after studying metallurgy at the Western University in Pennsylvania.
Alexander Lyman Holley - ASME
2012年3月28日 · If Britain's Sir Henry Bessemer was the father of the steel industry, then Alexander Lyman Holley was the chief architect and engineer of its rise in the U.S. During his brief but remarkably productive career, Holley brought Bessemer's revolutionary steel manufacturing process to the states, improved upon it, and played a critical role in ...
How the Cotton Gin Started the Civil War - ASME - The American …
2010年12月28日 · Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a simple device that transformed both agricultural and industrial America. The gin itself comprised a rotating drum with wire hooks or ratchet-like teeth that pull
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Liverpool Manchester Railway & Site of Rainhill Trials - ASME
George Stephenson was responsible for constructing the line while Robert Stephenson and Henry Booth developed locomotives. Railway construction began in 1826 and was completed in 1830. The railway gave Manchester mills direct access to Liverpool docks and broke a canal monopoly.
Eli Whitney - ASME - The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2012年7月19日 · Even more than the cotton gin, the mass production put into motion by Massachusetts farm boy Eli Whitney (1765 – 1825) in his push to manufacture muskets was certainly one of the biggest steps in the development of the modern industrial age.
needed for successful Bessemer steel production was scarce. Inspired by the information in the pamphlet, he enlisted three iron companies to engage in extensive explorations for high-grade ore in the area described. Explorations in Section “30,” where Iron Mountain is located, were placed in the hands of Dr. Nelson P. Hulst, a
2024 Year in Review This year, the ASME Foundation was awarded an $800,000 ASME awarded the 2024 Edwin F. Church Medal to Oscar Barton,
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Bessemer Conversion Engine - ASME
1997年8月1日 · In 1898, Dr. Edwin J. Fithian and John Carruthers formed the Bessemer Gas Engine Company and produced kits to convert steam engines into the new internal combustion engines, fueled with oil-field natural gas. This gas engine, in service for 75 years, is a kit conversion of an 1880s Innis steam engine.
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