. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Mushei's Titanic Steel and Iron Company was liquidated in 1871 and its principal asset, "R. Miishet's special steel," that is, his tungsten alloy tool metal, was taken over by the Sheffield firm of Samuel Osborn and Company. The royalties from this, with Besse- mer's pension .seem to ha\e left Mushet in a reasonably comfortable condition until his death in 1891;''- but e\-en the award of the Bessemer medal by the Iron and Steel Institute in 1876 failed to remove the con- viction that he had been badly treated. One would like to kno
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Mushei's Titanic Steel and Iron Company was liquidated in 1871 and its principal asset, "R. Miishet's special steel," that is, his tungsten alloy tool metal, was taken over by the Sheffield firm of Samuel Osborn and Company. The royalties from this, with Besse- mer's pension .seem to ha\e left Mushet in a reasonably comfortable condition until his death in 1891;''- but e\-en the award of the Bessemer medal by the Iron and Steel Institute in 1876 failed to remove the con- viction that he had been badly treated. One would like to know more about the politics which preceded the award of the trade's highest honor. Bessemer at any rate was persuaded to approve of the presenta- tion and attended the meeting. Mushet himself did not accept the invitation, "as I may probably not be then ; ^ The President of the Institute empha- sized the present good relations between Mushet and Bessemer and the latter recorded that the hatchet had "long since" been buried. Yrx .\luslu-t continuccl to " See Fred M. Osborn, 7 he story of the Atushets, London, 1852. »' Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 1876, p. .^. brood over the injustice done to him and eventually recorded his story of the rise and progress of the "Bessemer-Mushet" process in a pamphlet ''' written apparently without reference to his earlier statements and so commiiting himself to many inconsistencies. William Kelly s "Air-boiling" Pfoccss An account of Bcssemer's address to ilu- British .Association was ])ul)lishccl in the Scienlijic American on September 13, ;^ On .September 16, , Martien filed application for a U. S. patent on his furnace and .Mushet for one on the apjilication of his triple compound to cast iron "(jurificd or decarbon- ized by the action of air blown or forced into ... its particles while it is in a molten . . ;'" •* Robert Mushet, The Bessemer-Mu
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