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Visit To A Sheffield Steelworks (1913)


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'Visit to a Sheffield Steel Works' is a 60 page, 11.5 inches by 9 inches cloth hardback privately published in 1913 by Sheffield Steel firm Jessop & Sons Ltd, based in Brightside, Sheffield.

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The photos are a mere fraction of the content of the book. It is essentially the history of the Firm, but almost every page has photographic reproductions of the factory, workers, processes etc dating from the later 19th century to that time, 1913 - the eve of WW1.

There are pictures of the Brightside works, the American works, stocks of Swedish bar iron, converting furnaces - inside and out, weigh-up shop, 48 hole crucible furnace, pressed ingots, crucible furnace men and men 'hand teeming', the pot house, mixing, treading and 'balling' clay, crucible making, crucible steel forge, wooden tilt-hammers, the water wheel, pneumatic hammer, rod mill, rod rolls, steel warehouse, old advertsing signs, annealing furnaces, sheet mill, cold rolling, pen steel scrap, hardening shop - in and out, recoding instruments, a 'recalescence' curve, fractures of steel, motor crank machine shop, motor-car crank with test pieces, six-throw motor-car crank, siemens' furnace, steel foundry, battleship ram (remember War is on the way), the casting-ram for H.M.S. "Implacable" leaving the works, casting-steel sternframe and stem piece (of a battleship), forged steel rudder frame, gearings, spur wheel, pattern shop, drawing office, heaviny forge, 15 ton hammer, 4 ton hammer, motor forge, the test room, electric furnace.

Not to mention some technical drawing and several portraits of founders and leaders such as Mr Jessop Robinson and W H Thomas.

In sort, a mine of wonderful historical, industrial, local, munitions information.

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