. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . esis typified by eight interlaced arrows. Itis believed that the success of the Eng-lish archers at the battles of Poictiers andlater at Agincourt were largely attribu-table to the superiority of the Sheffield diameter and strips .003 of an inch thickare only the smaller sizes of what is con-stantly turned out. This latter figure rep-resents a thickness only comparable tothat of a piece of tissue paper. The process of making crucible steelas carried out by Jessop & Sons is veryinteresting and
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . esis typified by eight interlaced arrows. Itis believed that the success of the Eng-lish archers at the battles of Poictiers andlater at Agincourt were largely attribu-table to the superiority of the Sheffield diameter and strips .003 of an inch thickare only the smaller sizes of what is con-stantly turned out. This latter figure rep-resents a thickness only comparable tothat of a piece of tissue paper. The process of making crucible steelas carried out by Jessop & Sons is veryinteresting and was recently shown to arepresentative of Railway and Locomo-tive Engineering. In order to insurethe highest quality, the company buy theentire output of the best make of Swed-ish bar iron. This is as far as is knownthe purest iron in the world. The Swed-ish iron comes in bars % in. x 3 ins., andis converted into blister steel at the Jes-sop works. A layer of bars is placed ona bed of charcoal in the converting fur-nace, and on top of the layer of iron,another layer of charcoal is put on. This. . I. INCUTS, SHOWING PIPE FORMATION ON TWO AT LEFT. arrows. The victory at the battle of Bos-worth is also ascribed to Sheffield arrowsbeing, longer, sharper, better ground andmore highly polished than those madebefore Sheffield knives have had an an-cient and deserved fame. The steel works of William Jessop wereestablished in 1774. In 1875 the businesswas converted into a limited area covered is 45 acres and about1,700 men are employed. The product isprincipally crucible steel of high quality,though about 30 years ago a fine steelfoundry was erected in which the Sie-mens-Martin acid process is used in themanufacture of steel castings which rangefrom 1 lb. to 60 long tons. Ten yearslater a heavy forge was added and anextensive machine shop was put in opera-tion shortly after. In addition to otherwork this company makes 50 tons ofcrucible tool steel every working day,and
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