, 1879-06-19

their disc1editab1e breac, Of faith ultimately
turned 10 the advantage both Ut u,e couutry sud
of8ir Henry Bss'emer himself. II he had been
aro;eh:,.1 Slerx " Fer ,ssomsttehoa:e, there !. 4tte
rcsolut!ontzed the steel Industry or na7o
rcceivad more THAI million sterling an the
reward Of ono Of his discoveries. slt1l, he has
more Than once, and, on ono remarkable occa-
sion tn our o~n columns, brought his old Rrtev-
anec against The Stamr Office to the notice Of
The public; and tho title now conferred upon
MN mav pcrharH be REGARDED A. an admission
81 he value ot tnc servicc he then rendered to
tltc public. An tn,uro5ement In The procrss Ut
slce! manufacture, notwithstanding It's v&st III.
hnstres Importance, Il not matter which in
tns country ls supposed to require such kind
o,,ss .. 1essp'o TO increase hs ptoductlon aud
YetsaI application fs 90 achievement which,
rightly Or wrongly, Is held 10 bc OF purely
commercial character, and to call only for com.
s,cls rswa5e arsat - + undoubtedly +.
.lle method Of STAMPING. have been ony
two amopg the Inventions of buty litc, which
y still actively employed In pursuits Of
kaofed n wn5e mey It, r.. nssompl. &c
10 at present engaged tn the elaboration Of new
methpd OF manufacturing spccu1a for rejecting
tcicsropes, which, Il It Should prove successful,
VIZ enable t!!m to ,,,: produce psrloct parabolIc
almost without Limitation OF size; while the un.
prosperous sllla Of his Inventive faculty has
been sufficiently represented by the ahtp whtrh
was to present sea-sickncss, and which II said
to have accomplished the very reverse Of Its in
tended 0b3eet by producing that distressing
tualndy ia the person OF = naval captain OF great
experience aud wide .enown who WAS tempted
to engace sh an experimental tip In the model
grounds Of The tnvcotor.
The dlscoVery Of tic 1nesns Of rapidly and
cheaply converting pig Iron Into steel by blow-
Ing hiast OF air through lhe trou wien ia
t1ga ftf fI1ajA tha tntn
perImenss which extended over period Of more
thau ten years. aLd III which the Ut innate result
was only attained after many and dlshcartenlng
failures. Pror to this invention. the eutlre pro-
about 6o,0o0 tons annually: and IL average
price, when ranged from E50 10 COO pei ton,
was proh oltors Of Its use for many Of The pur-
poses 70 which II y now universally applied. IN
Of trade, The Besscmcr steel produced In
t}scat Britain amounted to 75u,Oo0 tons,
or fifteen times the total Of the former
method Of tnanutacture: whfle the selling prlco
Cd in producing II vas lcss by 8, go tons than
would haYe bcen required ID order TO make Tie
same quantity Of stcca by the old, Of Sheffield,
process. Tl.s total reduction OF Gust Is equal to
manufactured IN Eaala1ld during the year; nnil
In this war steel has been rendered arsflabic for
a vast number Of purposes In which its qualities
arc OF the greatest possible value, but from
HuMH III luRA tHICt t4e11uE1 Duf-
I'M, tho sa1nc rear TIC Bessetner steel manufac-
tussa in the isc other countries, in
which tho business is chiefly conduct
Germany, Fraoce, and Sweden, raised
the total oYtpta TO- 1,a74,2T8 tons. with
net selling value Of about a.,o, ,000,O0 sterling.
Tie works iii which these operations we're
carried on were. eighty-tour In number. and
represent 4 capital Of more than three Millions
According to the calculations Of Ms. Price
WillIams, who l,aa made the endurance Of rails
matter OF carcful study, the substitution Of
Dessemer steel for iron, for this ourpose alone,
| will produce saying OF expenditure during the
life Of one set Of steel rails on all the existing
| lfpes In Great BrlsaIn Of q sum Of more than
unc hundred nnd sevcnty millions sterling. It
1aav safely be said that there IL no other tu-
stance in history OF an analogous Impetus to
manufacture. or Of an analogous economy,
being the brainwork OF q single individual; sttlf
less IL there IN Instance OF such results being
realized while tue Inventor was living to cutoy
tie fruits Of his labors, and able to work II,
fresh directions TO increase the benefits which
he had already conferred upon, bis country aud
urQu mankind.