Factory and industrial management . happened that during the evening following a prolonged visit tothe Sandviken works I was present at a banquet which most assuredlymerited the definition unique, inasmuch as it took place many hun-dreds of feet below the surface and amid the weird surroundings ofthe ancient workings of the great Kopparbergs mine—once not in-aptly called the Treasury of Sweden. I allude casually to this gath-ering because it afforded me opportunity to eulogise the very diverseindustrial enterprises in which the inheritors of the historic propertyare now engaged, and the invalu
Factory and industrial management . happened that during the evening following a prolonged visit tothe Sandviken works I was present at a banquet which most assuredlymerited the definition unique, inasmuch as it took place many hun-dreds of feet below the surface and amid the weird surroundings ofthe ancient workings of the great Kopparbergs mine—once not in-aptly called the Treasury of Sweden. I allude casually to this gath-ering because it afforded me opportunity to eulogise the very diverseindustrial enterprises in which the inheritors of the historic propertyare now engaged, and the invaluable services of the founder andfirst manager of the Sandviken works in connection with the revolu-tion in steel making which followed the perfection and widespreadadoption of the so-called Bessemer process. Everyone, of course,knows that to Sweden belongs the credit of bringing the experimentalstage to a close and of proving, even when Bessemer himself was be-ginning to despair, that the new process of refining was at once theo-. 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 details.
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