Iron Scrap, Or, The Issue of an Old Shoe Heel
Being the Origin of the Discovery of Pig Boiling
Iron Scrap, Or, The Issue of an Old Shoe Heel Being the Origin of the Discovery of Pig Boiling
An account of Joseph Hall's discovery of the improvement in the manufacture of iron by "pig-boiling, in which Hall takes issue with Bessemer's claim to be able to make good malleable iron without the manipulation of puddling. Biographical and other background information in the appendix on p. [25]-49.