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Edward Vickers -
Vickers plc (http://www.made-in-sheffield.com/Multimedia/
People/ThomasEdVickers.jpg)

Robert H. Sayre -
Bethlehem Iron Company (http://www.sayrehistoricalsociety.org/
photos/people/RobertSayre.jpg)

William G. Mather
- president of Cleveland-Cliffs 1890-1940 (http://wgmather.nhlink.net/
wgmimg/mather/wgm.jpg)

Augustus Wolle, Charles W.
Rauch - The Bethlehem Rolling Mills and Iron Company
(http://books.google.com/ books?id=0gc1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA701-IA2&img=1&zoom=3&hl=
en&sig=ACfU3U0qNIUi6-LYzq0HLed_2Mj0NhNzfg&w=575)

Alfred Hunt -
President, The Bethlehem Rolling Mills and Iron Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Image:Alfred_Hunt_2.jpg)

John Maneely -
John Maneely Company (http://www.wheatland.com/
images/JohnManeely.jpg)

Colonel James Withers Sloss
- Sloss Furnace Company (http://www.slossfurnaces.com/
media/images/sloss_story/ james_sloss.jpg)

Reinhard
Mannesmann -
Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG
(http://www.weltchronik.de/ws/ bio/m/mannesmannR/mr01922a-MannesmannReinhard-18560513b-19220220d.jpg)

Francis H. Clergue
- Algoma Steel
(http://www.edisonsault.com/
100years/page4b.jpg)

George M. Verity
- Armco Steel (http://books.google.com/books?id=
aTejqGEnxIcC&pg= PA10&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&ots= fg4DkZXmTX&sig=
ACfU3U2QCN1ILfAtYMPLephhHBUk11u9fg&w=575)

Sir Henry Bessemer-
Bessemer Process (http://www.todayinsci.com/B/
Bessemer_Henry/ BessemerHenryThm.jpg)

Charles M. Schwab
- first president of U. S. Steel; 1904 formed Bethlehem Steel
Corp. (http://www.bethlehempaonline.
com/ schwabcharles.jpg)

John Guest
- GKN (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
en/thumb/2/2d/Josiah_John_Guest.jpg/180px-Josiah_John_Guest.jpg)

Henry J. Kaiser
(http://thekaiserworks.com/
dev/images/H_image1.jpg)

August Thyssen
-
Thyssen
Industrie (http://www.rwe.com/ generator.aspx/
property=BlowupData/ id=137020.jpg)

Andrew Carnegie
(http://www.columbia.edu/ cu/lweb/img/
assets/ 4815/Copy%20of%20 ANDREW.jpg)

Elbert H. Gary
-
(http://www.library.northwestern. edu/ archives/exhibits/alumni/
gary.jpg)

Henry Clay Frick
(Carnegie partner, in 1889 made chairman of
Carnegie Steel)
(http://www.bgsu.edu/ departments/ acs/1890s/carnegie/frick.jpg)

Henry Phipps
- Carnegie partner (http://upload.wikimedia. org/wikipedia/
en/thumb/9/9a/ Henry_Phipps.gif/180px-Henry_Phipps.gif)
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STEEL & IRON
- Business History of Manufacturers
Interesting Dates
March 4, 1720 -
Joshua Gee, Joseph Farmer, William Russell, Thomas Russell, John Ruston,
and Stephen Onion found Principio Company; Augustine Washington [father
of George Washington] held a one-twelfth interest.
1730 - King of France granted royal warrant to François
Poulin de Francheville, Seigneur de Saint-Maurice, a Montreal merchant,
to mine iron ore deposits on his seigneury for a 20-year period;
1733 - founded Compagnie des Forges de Saint-Maurice (died same
year); August 20, 1738 - St. Maurice Ironworks officially
opened near Trois-Rivières, Quebec, first industrial community in
Canada, after determining that project could be profitable if another
process for reducing iron ore were used; established primarily for the
purpose of providing bar iron for building and fitting out ships in the
royal navy; March 1883 - oldest operating blast furnace in
North America closed; could no longer compete with more modern
coke-fired blast furnace ironworks in Ontario and Nova Scotia.
1742 - Benjamin Huntsman discovered the crucible technique
for making steel in Sheffield, UK; enormous impact on quantity, quality
of steel produces; 1856 - made obsolete invention of
Bessemer converter (allowed mass production of steel).
1759 - Dowlais Iron Co. established in Wales;
1767 - John
Guest appointed as manager; 1900 - incorporated as Guest, Keen and Co
Limited; 1902 - name changed to Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds
Ltd.; 1986 - name shortened to GKN PLC.
1760 - Carron Iron Works in operation in Scotland.
September 15, 1817 -
Isaac Meason opened Plumstock Rolling Mill,
first U.S. mill to roll and puddle iron, at Rolling Mill,
at Redstone Creek, PA; reduced the carbon content in cast iron to
produce malleable iron; produced wrought iron by roll milling rather
than than hammer forging; destroyed by floods in 1824. Meason
established the first commercially successful iron furnace and forge
west of the Alleghenies in 1791; eventually owned 20,000 acres of land,
six iron furnaces, toll ferries and bridges, two sawmills, grist mills,
the entire town of New Haven and property in Kentucky.
1828 - Edward Vickers, a miller, and George Naylor, his
father-in-law, formed Naylor Vickers and Company, steel foundry, in
Sheffield, UK (gained control of steelmaking firm of Naylor &
Sanderson); 1867 - incorporated as Vickers, Sons and Co.
Ltd.; acquired businesses, branched into various sectors; 1868 -
manufactured marine shafts; 1872 - cast marine propellers;
1882 - set up forging press; 1888 - produced
first armor plate; 1890 - made first artillery piece.
April 28, 1829 - Henry Robinson Palmer, co-founder
of Institute of Civil Engineers in 1818 and resident engineer of London Dock
and Harbour Company, received
first British patent for "application of metallic plates or sheets,
in a fluted, indented, or corrugated form, to the purposes in relation
to buildings, for which metallic plates with even or plain surfaces,
have been already applied. The advantage to be derived...consists in the
additional strength obtained in the metal itself, so that less aid is
required from framework supporting or attached thereto...";
application of corrugated iron to roofs, other parts of buildings
(stiffness minimized need for supporting framework).
July 4, 1840 - Blast furnaces of the Lehigh Crane Iron
Company, in what is now known as Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, began
production; 1860 - group of executives headed by Robert H.
Sayre, from recently completed Lehigh Valley Railroad, acquired control
of paper corporation, renamed the Bethlehem Rolling Mill and Iron
Company; produced high-quality wrought-iron rails for Lehigh Valley,
other railroads; 1861 - reorganized as Bethlehem Iron
Company; 1873 - built new, revolutionary mill (Bessemer
process) combined, for first time, production of steel with
rolling of rails in an integrated process in single building; 1899
- reorganized as Bethlehem Steel Company, put up for sale.
May 30, 1844 - Simeon Broadmeadow, of Woodbridge, NY,
received a patent for an "Improvement in the Mode of Obtaining
Wrought-Iron Directly from the Ore" ("to obtain malleable iron directly
from the ore by treating the same in a pudding-furnace").
November 9, 1847 - Ohio legislature granted special
charter to Cleveland Iron Company prior to adoption of new constitution
in 1850; April 1850 - chartered by Michigan legislature,
began operations on land in Marquette Iron District bordering on Lake
Superior in Marquette County, MI; April 1853 - Samuel
Mather, Dr. Morgan L. Hewitt, Isaac L. hewitt, John Outhwaite, Henry F.
Brayton, Selah Chamberlain, E.M. Clark incorporated Cleveland Iron
Mining Company to explore for minerals in remote wilderness of
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (iron ore discovered near Negaunee, MI in
1844); 1890 - acquired Cliffs Iron Company, name changed
to Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company; mid-1980s - renamed
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.; 2008 - six iron ore mines account
for approximately 46% of North American capacity, 28% for its own
account; largest supplier of iron-ore pellets to steel industry, oldest
iron-mining firm with headquarters in Cleveland.
October 13, 1853 - Samuel Wetherill, of Philadelphia,
erected the Pennsylvania and LeHigh Zinc Company Mill in Bethlehem, PA;
produced the first commercial zinc, which was obtained from calamine
ores; eventually acquired by the New Jersey Zinc Company.
October 17, 1855 - Sir Harry Bessemer, of London, UK,
British inventor and metallurgist, received patent for
"Improvements in the Manufacture of Iron and Steel" ("decarbonization process, utilizing a blast of air"); first process
for mass-producing cast steel inexpensively from
molten pig iron;
the "Bessemer Process": compressed
air blasted through molten iron removed impurities and excess carbon;
made it possible to mass-produce steel inexpensively;
November 11, 1856 - received U.S. patent for ""Improvement
in the Manufacture of Iron and Steel";
1859 - Bessemer, Robert Longsdon and William D. Allen
(brothers-in-law), William Galloway (Manchester engineer) founded Henry
Bessemer and Co. to build Bessemer Steel Works on Carlisle St. in
Sheffield, UK; manufactured guns, later rails for rapidly expanding
railway network.
April 8, 1857 - Augustus Wolle, Charles Brodhead
incorporated The Saucona Iron Company to build blast furnace to produce
pig iron Saucon Creek at Gangewere mine; persuaded to enlarge functions
of mine, relocate to south side of Lehigh, at Bethlehem, PA; backed by
Augustus Wolle, Charles Brodhead,
Charles W. Rauch, Ambrose H. Rauch, Charles B. Daniel, others;
June 14, 1860 -
The Bethlehem Rolling Mills and Iron
Company
organized, Alfred Hunt as president; Augustus Wolle, Asa Packer (founder
of Lehigh Valley Railroad), John T. Johnston, John Knecht, Edward
Roberts, Charles B. Daniel, Charles W. Rauch as Directors; John Fritz,
iron-master of Johnstown, PA, hired as general superintendent, chief
engineer; May 1, 1861 - name changed to The Bethlehem Iron
Company; 1873 - began making steel; primarily supplier of
military products; April 17, 1899 - Bethlehem Steel Co.
established as holding company; April 1901 - Charles M.
Schwab (facilitated creation, first president of U.S. Steel Company)
acquired Bethlehem Steel Company; 1902 - merged Bethlehem
Steel with group of seven shipyards, created short-lived United Ship
Building Company; 1904 - resigned as president of U.S.
Steel, combined shipyards with Bethlehem Steel Company, with Joseph
Wharton created Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
May 26, 1857 - Robert Mushet, metallurgist from Coleford,
England, received a
patent for an "Improvement in the Manufacture of Iron and Steel"; Bessemer-Mushet process of manufacturing cheap steel,
achieved by adding spiegeleisen to blown metal during melting
process; 1868 - discovered self-hardening steel, became
known as Robert Mushet's Special Steel (R.M.S.); first real tool steel, forerunner of modern high-speed steels.
June 23, 1857 - William Kelly, of Lyon County, KY,
received patent for the "Improvement in the Manufacture of Iron" ("New and
Improved Method of Treating Iron by which I am enabled to refine and decarbonize crude pig metal or iron in a fluid state without the use of
fuel"); "a system of air blowing the carbon out of pig iron" a method of
steel production known as the pneumatic process of steelmaking; air is
blown through molten pig iron to oxidize and remove unwanted impurities.
Bankruptcy forced Kelly to sell patent to Bessemer.
1872 - Union General William J. Palmer , colleagues in
Denver and Rio Grande Railway (D&RG), created Central Colorado
Improvement, Southern Colorado and Coal Town, South Pueblo Colony,
Colorado Coal and Steel Works companies as local source for steel rail
for their expanding narrow railroad business; 1880 -
consolidated into Colorado Coal and Iron Company (CC&I); 1892
- merged with John Cleveland Osgood's Colorado Fuel and Company in
Pueblo, form Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation; 1903 -
John D. Rockefeller, George Gould gained control of company; 1944
- controlling interest acquired by Allen Group; 1969 -
acquired by Crane Company; 1990 - declared bankruptcy;
assets acquired by Oregon Steel Company.
1877 - John Maneely, Irish immigrant, launched John
Maneely Company, pipe distribution business in Philadelphia, PA; sold
pipe, valves and fittings; 1920s - one of largest
independent distributors of steel, iron pipe on East Coast; 1931
- organized Wheatland Tube Company (Wheatland. PA) as steel pipe
manufacturing subsidiary; 1944 - Wheatland began
production of couplings; 1963 - installed new Aetna
Standard Mill (eliminated "tong and bell" method of manufacturing pipe);
introduced rigid conduit; 1960s - introduced Electrical
Metallic Tubing (thinner wall tubular product); 1992 -
acquired Omega Tube and Conduit (Little Rock, AR), entered residential
fence tubing market; 2002 - acquired Sawhill Tubular from
AK Steel (largest expansion company’s history); increased capabilities,
annual production to 800,000 tons; 2003 - Peter S. Dooner,
fourth generation family member, appointed president and CEO;
March 2006 - acquired by The Carlyle Group, private equity firm;
largest independent manufacturer of tubular steel in North America;
August 12, 2008 - agreed to sell company to Russian
steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel for $3.53 billion.
November 1, 1879 - First all-steel railroad bridge
built in Glasgow, MO.
1880 -
North Alabama planter and investor,
Colonel James Withers Sloss, founded Sloss Furnace Company in
Birmingham, AL;
April 18, 1882 - "blew-in" second blast furnace in
Birmingham; 1885 - company sold to group of financiers,
renamed Sloss Iron & Steel Company; August 1899 - merged
with Sheffield Steel and Iron Company, incorporated Sloss- Sheffield
Steel and Iron Company (seven furnaces in Alabama, 1500 beehive coke
ovens, 120,000 acres of coal and ore land, five Jefferson County coal
mines, two red ore mines, brown ore mines, quarries in North
Birmingham); became second largest merchant pig-iron company in
Birmingham district; start of WW II - among largest
producers of pig iron in world; 1952 - merged with U.S.
Pipe and Foundry Company; 1960s-1970s -
merchant pig iron industry undermined
by
technological changes, introduction of ductile iron and plastic pipe,
foundry trade’s increasing reliance on scrap iron;
American iron and steel industry due
to
stricter air pollution standards, competition from foreign imports,
mismanagement in industry; 1969 - acquired by Jim Walter
Corporation; 1971 - oldest remaining blast furnaces in
Birmingham shut; 2008 - only 20th-century blast furnace in
U.S. preserved, interpreted as historic industrial site, example of
20th-century iron-making technology in era when America grew to world
industrial dominance.
June 1, 1880 - Thomas A. Edison received a patent for a
"Magnetic Ore-Separator" ("means by which, while simple and cheap in
construction, shall economically and effectually separate magnetic from
non-magnetic substances").
March 17, 1885 - Fayette Brown, of Cleveland, OH, received
a patent for "Hoisting and Top Filling Apparatus for Blast Furnaces";
blast furnace charger.
1890 - Reinhard and Max Mannesmann established Deutsch-Österreichische
Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG with pipe mills at Remscheid, Bous/Saar and
Komotau/Bohemia, headquarters in Berlin (invented pierce rolling process
for manufacture of seamless steel tubes in 1885); 1897 -
Deutsche Röhrenwerke A.-G. established in Düsseldorf to produce welded
pipe; January 5, 1907 - went public; 1920s -
integrated vertically: acquired steelworks at Duisburg- Huckingen,
piping systems fabricator at Bitterfeld, engineering concern, Gebruder
Meer of Monchengladbach; 1930s - one of six giant iron,
steel works of Ruhr; 1952 - split into three parts in
post-war settlement (reunited in 1955); 1970 - acquired
pipe-making opeartions of Thyssen Corporation; October 1999
- acquired UK's third-largest cellular operator, Orange PLC (3.5
million U.K. subscribers ) for $32.8 billion; February 10, 2000
- acquired by Vodaphone AirTouch for $187 billion, largest corporate
merger in history.
June 7, 1892 - Thomas A. Edison received a patent for an
"Ore Screening Apparatus" ("for keeping the screen perforations free
from obstruction by lumps of ore too large to readily pass through
them").
June 14, 1892 - Thomas A. Edison received a patent for a
"Method of and Apparatus for Separating Ores" ("separating gold or other
non-magnetic ore from the quartz by a dry process").
July 1, 1892 -
Carnegie Brothers and Carnegie,
Phipps, Company merged, formed
Carnegie Steel with capitalization of
$25,000,000; Carnegie owned 55%, Frick 11%, Phipps 11%, nineteen other
partners 1% each; remaining 4% held in reserve to reward successful
young men in plants; 1900 - vertically integrated,
controlled ore, coke, limestone, shipping facilities on Great Lakes and
from Great Lakes to Pittsburgh; H.C. Frick Company combined with
Carnegie Steel; January 1900 - Carnegie tried to force
out Frick; March 1900 - Frick ousted from management;
March 2, 1901 - acquired by J. P. Morgan for $480,000,000.
June 28, 1892
-
Henry Clay Frick, general manager of
Carnegie Steel's Homestead Steel
Works in Homestead, PA,
began to shutdown operations as
wage negotiations Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers (700 of 3,800 workers) had proved
unsuccessful; workers' wage contract,
sliding scale based on price of 4 x 4 standard Bessemer steel billets,
set to expire on June 30 (Frick had refused to negotiate after June 25);
Frick wanted to cut
wages by nearly 20% as price of rolled-steel products had declined to
$22/gross ton from $35;
July 2, 1892 -
Frick shut mills with intent to hire non-union
workers to replace strikers;
built fence three miles long, 12 feet high around steelworks plant with
peepholes for rifles, topped with barbed wire;
July 6, 1892
- steel workers clashed with 300 Pinkerton detectives hired to break
strike; nine strikers, seven agents dead;
July 9, 1892 - strike ended as State of
Pennsylvania sent 7000 troops to "restore law
and order";
September 1892 - production resumed; November 1892 - union
conceded defeat, called off strike; Carnegie fired, blacklisted
strikers.
May 30, 1893 - Thomas A. Edison received a patent for a
"Rollers for Crushing Ore or Other Materials" ("especially adapted for
crushing iron ore...three or more rollers supported side by side in a
frame and moveable towards or away from each other, instead of using
them in pairs, and a single weight and lever serves to press all of said
rollers together").
1898 -
Elbert H. Gary became first president of newly organized Federal
Steel Company (backed by J.P. Morgan); 1901 - merged with
U.S. Steel Corporation; Gary elected chairman of the board,
corporation's chief executive officer for 26 years; 1906 -
town of Gary, IN, named in his honor.
June 14, 1898 - Thomas A. Edison received a patent for a
"Drying Apparatus" ("drying or baking oven suitable for the drying or
baking of iron-ore briquets or analagous material"); received a patent
for a "Mixer" ("suitable apparatus for mixing concentrated pulverized
iron ore with a binding material preparatory to the molding of the
material into briquets").
December 2, 1899 - George M. Verity (35), owner of
American Steel Roofing (assumed management in 1889 of Sagendorf Iron
Roofing and Corrugating Company, reorganized in 1891 as American Steel
Roofing Company), incorporated American Rolling Mill Company; July
12, 1900 - moved company to one-room slab building in
Middletown, OH; March 7, 1901 - first furnace fires
lighted to produce rolled steel (continuous process for converting white
hot ingot into long, thin sheet or strips), mainly for other
manufacturers to use in their own products; reduced price of automobile
body steel from $83 per ton to $7 per ton; grew to country's eighth
largest steel company; 1948 - adopted acronym "ARMCO";
soon name changed to Armco Steel Corporation; 1978 - name
changed to Armco Inc.; 1989 - name changed to AK Steel;
1994 - AK Steel Holding Corporation created, went public;
1999 - AK Steel subsidiary merged with Armco Inc.; combined
company produced flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steel
products for automotive, appliance, construction, manufacturing markets,
standard pipe and tubular steel products, employed about 11,500 people.
March 24, 1900 - Andrew Carnegie incorporated Carnegie
Steel Company (thumbed his nose at Sherman Anti-Trust Law).
April 1901 - Charles M. Schwab (facilitated creation,
first president of U.S.
Steel Company) acquired Bethlehem Steel
Company; 1902 - merged Bethlehem Steel with group of seven
shipyards, created short-lived United Ship Building Company; 1904
- resigned as president of U.S. Steel, combined
shipyards with Bethlehem Steel Company, created Bethlehem Steel
Corporation; 1907-1908 - began producing Grey beams
(radical new rolling mill invented by English engineer Henry Grey) -
(H-section steel structural members that are wider, lighter, cheaper to
produce than conventional, riveted I-section beams); made possible
erection of taller skyscrapers, longer-span bridges, greatly diversified
Bethlehem’s product line, lessened almost exclusive dependence on
military orders; 1922 - acquired Lackawanna Steel Company;
1995 -
steelmaking ceased at Bethlehem Steel plant; 1997 -
remaining parts of plant, coke works shut down (couldn't compete with
profitable mini-mill type steel manufacturers, which re-melted scrap
steel, recast it into new products); October 11, 2001 -
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; December 18, 2002 - U.S.
Pension Benefit Security announced that it would take over the company’s
pensions, assets, and obligations.
April 1, 1901 - J. Pierpont Morgan formed U.S. Steel
Corp.; largest business enterprise ever launched, with an authorized
capitalization of $1.4 billion;
combined business interests of
Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company formed nucleus of U. S.
Steel (also included American Steel & Wire Co., National Tube Company,
American Tin Plate Co., American Steel Hoop Co., American Sheet Steel
Co.); first full year of operation, made 67 percent of all steel produced in United States.
May 28, 1901
- Thomas Edison received a patent for a "Magnetic Separator" ("for
ground material containing magnetic and non-magnetic particles
particularly adapted for the separation of ground magnetic iron ore");
received a patent for an "Apparatus for Screening Pulverized Material".
1907 - Tata Iron and Steel
Company went public; December 2, 1911 - first cast of
pig-iron produced; February 16, 1912 - first steel made.
August 13, 1913
- English metallurgist, Harry Brearley cast first true stainless
steel in Sheffield, England; steel alloy
contained 0.24% carbon and 12.8% chromium - strongly resisted chemical
attack, including vinegar and other food acids such as lemon juice;
realized that this new steel could also revolutionize the cutlery
industry.
October 1, 1933
- Mesabi Iron Co. of Babbitt, MN shipped the first cargo of taconite, a
low-grade ore containing 25% - 30% iron (magnetite and hematite as tiny
particles scattered throughout a very tough variety of quartz called
chert), to the Ford Motor Company of River Rouge, MI.
March 1, 1937
- John L. Lewis of Congress of Industrial Organizations and U.S.
Steel President Myron Taylor signed landmark contract; heart of the deal
was U.S. Steel's official recognition of the CIO's steel arm as the sole
negotiator for the company's unionized workers; concessions to U.S.
Steel employees: adoption of overtime pay, forty-hour work week, pay
hike that raised wages by nearly forty cents an hour; Taylor viewed the UAW-GM strike as a clear indication that "complete industrial
organization was inevitable", reached out to his workers in hopes of
averting a showdown.
November 17, 1948
- Britain's House of Commons voted to nationalize steel industry.
March 14, 1950 - Permanente
Metals Corporation registered "Kaiser" trademark first used November 23,
1946 (aluminum products-namely. pig, ingot, strip, coil, [general
utility sheet and plate, aircraft ] sheet and plate [and sheet]
including flat corrugated and coiled sheet).
April 8, 1952 -
President Harry S. Truman seized steel industry to avert a
nationwide strike; June 1952 - Supreme Court ruled in
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer that Truman had overstepped his
bounds. The finding effectively proscribed the president's power during
times of national emergency.
February 5, 1953
- American Iron and Steel Institution announced that U.S. steel
companies had produced 117,500,000 short tons of steel during the past
year.
June 15, 1954
- Great Britain's second biggest steel factory nationalized.
1955 -
John H. McConnell, former salesman for Weirton Steel in Columbus, OH,
started business as a custom processed steel broker with $1,200 in
savings; borrowed $600 against 1952 Oldsmobile, worked from basement of
his home; founded Worthington Industries.
July 2, 1957
- Bethlehem Steel Corporation poured first vacuum-cast steel ingot made
in the U.S.; 93,900-pound ingot, 78 inches in diameter; can be made
using either an electric or open-hearth furnace to melt the metal.
April 10, 1962 -
President John F. Kennedy sharply chided the steel industry for its
recent decision to jack up prices which he deemed a "wholly unjustified
and irresponsible" move; few days later, steel leaders rolled back the
price hikes.
July 28,1967 - British Steel
formed from UK's 14 main steel producing companies.
November 27, 1979 - U.S. Steel
announced on this day that it was shutting down twelve of its plants,
threatened jobs of 13,000 employees; placed much of the blame on
"restrictive government policies and rules," which putatively resulted
in "unfairly priced imports" and excessive environmental spending
requirements.
December 27, 1983
- U.S. Steel announced it was reducing steelmaking capacity by roughly
20 percent, taking a $1.2 billion pre-tax write-off for the year
(biggest pre-tax charge in the steel industry; Bethlehem Steel had
earlier taken a $930 million write-off), laying off 4,600 workers; plant
closings and write-offs affected 15,400 U.S. Steel employees (10,800
workers who were previously laid-off had now permanently lost their
jobs).
June 26, 2006
- Mittal Steel agreed to acquire Arcelor for $33.5 billion; currently
the two largest steel manufacturers in the world, combination will
account for nearly 10% of world's total industry, three times capacity
(100 million tons annually) of nearest rival, Nippon Steel; 320,000
employees, $70 billion in sales.
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workers--Pennsylvania--Bethlehem--History; Iron and steel
workers--Pennsylvania--Bethlehem--History.
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industry and trade--United States--History.
Startling
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workers--Colorado--History--20th century; Coal
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(William Cook Company), Philip Hansen (1998).
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(Kaiser Steel), Mark S. Foster; foreword by William H. Goetzman (1989).
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Kaiser Steel Fontana. (San Francisco, CA: Arcadia Pub., 127
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buildings--California--Fontana--Pictorial works; Fontana
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(Nucor Corporation), Jeffrey L. Rodengen (1997).
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Plain Talk: Lessons
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(Principio Company), Ear Chapin May (1945).
Principio of Wheeling, 1715-1915, A Pageant of Iron and Steel.
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(Principio Company), Michael W. Robbins (1986).
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Poland; his method of rolling continuously cast steel slabs in
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Steel industry and trade--Wales--Shotton (Clwyd)--History; Shotton (Clwyd)--History.
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of company town at risk; 2006 - emerged from
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The Romance of Tata Steel. (New York, NY: Penguin, Viking,,
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(Richard Thomas & Co.), David Wainwright (1986).
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Wege und
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Thyssen Industrie AG Henschel--History; Steel industry and
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Industrial management--Germany--History;
Industrialists--Germany--History. Evolution of management
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The Life of Elbert H. Gary; A
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(U.S. Steel), James H. Bridge (1991).
The inside History of
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Big Steel: The First Century
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Global Gambits: Big Steel and the U.S. Quest for Manganese.
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Manganese--Metallurgy; Steel--Metallurgy; Developing countries--Foreign
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Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the
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Company--History; Steel industry and trade--United States--History;
Homestead Strike, Homestead, Pa., 1892; Industrialists--United
States--Biography; Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography.
SEE ALSO: Capitalists
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Friendly Takeover: How
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Steel industry and trade--United States.
(Worthington Industries), Jeffrey L. Rodengen (2000).
The Legend of Worthington Industries. (Fort Lauderdale, FL:
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(Worthington Industries), John H. McConnell (2004).
Our Golden Rule. (Columbus, OH: Franklin University Press, 161
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Business History Links
American Iron & Steel Institute
http://www.steel.org/
AISI comprises producer member companies, including integrated, electric
furnace, and reconstituted mills; associate member companies, which are
suppliers to or customers of the industry; and affiliate member
organizations, which are downstream steel producers of products such as
cold rolled strip, pipe and tube, and coated sheet - Overall mission: To
provide high-quality, value-added products to a wide array of customers;
To lead the world in innovation and technology in the production of
steel; To produce steel in a safe and environmentally friendly manner;
and To increase the market for North American Steel in both traditional
and innovative applications.
CF&I (Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation) Steel Collection
http://www.cfisteel.org/index.html
The CF&I Museum of Industry and Culture will feature exhibits related to
all facets of the CF&I, including but not limited to history of mining,
labor history, history of steel production, railroad history, and
history of Pueblo and Colorado and the CF&I's impact on the region. The
Bessemer Historical Society provides permanent care for significant
archives and artifacts of the CF&I Steel collection from its beginning
in 1872 to 1993; focus of the collection includes the Pueblo steel
works, the company mines and towns, as well as real estate in Colorado,
Wyoming, New Mexico and other states and the company-owned Colorado and
Wyoming Railroad. The Society will collect, preserve and interpret
materials that signify the contributions of the steel industry to
Colorado's history and honor the company's employees. Additionally, the
Society will collect, preserve and interpret materials citing the
contributions of the Bessemer area residents and merchants to Pueblo's
history.
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