The steel industry has been revolutionized by a discovery that has been made in France, if the claims of the inventors stand the final tests to which they are being subjected. The invention consists in this: that hard steels, nickel, chromium, manganese, and the rest, can be manufactured at roughly the same cost as ordinary Bessemer steel, with the sole added expense of the alloys involved.
I was present to-day writes a correspondent of the " Morning Post" in the northern suburbs of Paris at five experiments, each of which involved the production of a ton and a halt of high-class steel. Even to the expert eye there was nothing visible to distinguish the process. from the normal Bessemer method.
The essential feature of the experiments is that by the addition of certain secret substances, and by means of certain undivulged processes that escape detection, the ordinary Bessemer system can be applied to produce a steel so pure as to compare with that derived electrically, and thus sufficiently pure to be used as the basis of a whole series of high-grade steels.
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