The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . \ i. •«=T=SS Modern Rotary Converter. demonstration which convinced all who saw , like all important discoveries, there was ahard battle ahead of Kelly. There is always aprejudice against such revolutionary discoveries,and Kellys customers refused to accept iron re-fined by the new method even though it passedthe customary tests. His financial backing wasalso withdrawn, but Kelly could not be extin-guished. How he persevered with his pr
The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . \ i. •«=T=SS Modern Rotary Converter. demonstration which convinced all who saw , like all important discoveries, there was ahard battle ahead of Kelly. There is always aprejudice against such revolutionary discoveries,and Kellys customers refused to accept iron re-fined by the new method even though it passedthe customary tests. His financial backing wasalso withdrawn, but Kelly could not be extin-guished. How he persevered with his processwhen experiment after experiment failed, howhe worked secretly in the forest, and finally gotpermission from the Cambria Iron Works toerect a converter (the eighth he had con-structed) in their works, and how after a dis-astrous commencement success was finallyachieved, are familiar stories. Kelly was recog-nized as the inventor of the Bessemer process,and while Bessemers patents were refused re-newal, Kellys were renewed. He died in Bessemer Process To-Day.— In modernAmerican practice the pig iron is sometimesused direct in a fluid
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