Factory and industrial management . DISTRIBUTION OF LEADING IRON WORKS INSWEDEN. INDUSTRIAL SWEDEN. 689 retically correct, feasible, economical and advantageous. The storyof how this came about is so intimately bound up with the foundationof Sandviken that I may refer to a few unfamihar BESSEMER FURNACE AT EDSKEN, At the time when the industrial world was startled by the firstannouncements of Mr., afterwards Sir Henry, Bessemers remarkableinvestigations, there was living in England Pontus Kleman, a Swedishmerchant and owner of ironworks at Dormsjo and Garpenberg. Kle-man was an enthu
Factory and industrial management . DISTRIBUTION OF LEADING IRON WORKS INSWEDEN. INDUSTRIAL SWEDEN. 689 retically correct, feasible, economical and advantageous. The storyof how this came about is so intimately bound up with the foundationof Sandviken that I may refer to a few unfamihar BESSEMER FURNACE AT EDSKEN, At the time when the industrial world was startled by the firstannouncements of Mr., afterwards Sir Henry, Bessemers remarkableinvestigations, there was living in England Pontus Kleman, a Swedishmerchant and owner of ironworks at Dormsjo and Garpenberg. Kle-man was an enthusiastic believer in the future of the process, and,aided by drawings furnished by Bessemer and a compatriot engineer,named John Leffler, promptly erected at Dormsjo a furnace for thepurpose of continuing, on a sufficiently large scale, the English inven-tors experiments. The results achieved were far from satisfactory,and of a nature to justify much of the criticism aroused by Bessemersproposals. They failed, however, to convince Consul G. F. Goransson,then member of a firm of wholesale merchants which owned theHogbo iron works and Edsken blast furnace. He purchased in 1857Bessemers patent for Sweden, and for many months continued ex-
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