Mar 28, 2012 · By developing a one-step process to make low-cost steel, Henry Bessemer provided the raw materials from which our modern world is made. In the U.S., where natural resources and risk-taking investors were abundant, giant Bessemer steel mills sprung up to drive the expanding nation's rise as a dominant world economic and industrial leader.

May 22, 2012 · 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.

Mar 28, 2012 · 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 ...

Henry R. Worthington: 1882: Daniel Kinnear Clark Rudolph J.E. Clausius Peter Cooper Otto Hallauer Gustav Adolf Hirn Alexander L. Holley Sir Edward J. Reed Franz Reuleaux Henri Adolphe-Eugene Schneider C. William Siemens Henri Tresca: 1884: Johann Bauschinger Sir Frederick J. Bramwell Franz Grashof Friedrich Gustav Hermann: 1886: Sir Benjamin ...

Jul 19, 2012 · 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.

The Holley Medal was established in 1924 to honor Alexander Lyman Holley, charter member of ASME. It is awarded for outstanding and unique act(s) of an engineering nature, accomplishing a noteworthy and timely public benefit by one or more individuals for a single achievement, provided the contributions are equal or comparable.

Jul 13, 2012 · In 1980, Worthington Pump established the Henry R. Worthington Medal to recognize "eminent achievement in the field of pumping machinery, systems and concepts." Nancy Giges is an independent writer. In 1857, [Henry Worthington] came up with a duplex direct-acting pump, considered the most significant development in steam-powered pumps at the time.

Dec 28, 2010 · 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

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), the world’s first inter-city railroad designed and built between its namesake cities for the efficient, commercial transportation of passengers

Aug 26, 2006 · This compressor was a product of the combined technology and design heritage of both the C. & G. Cooper Company of Mount Vernon and the Bessemer Gas Engine Company of Pennsylvania, which had merged in 1929. Ralph L. Boyer, the chief architect of the GMV, worked for Cooper-Bessemer from 1926 through 1965.