[TheForge] Bessemer Stole was Yale Yellin gate...

[David E. Smucker]

Bruce if it makes you feel good then you can say that Bessemer stole the 
process named for him.  I don't think that is the case and good historical 
research doesn't either.

Ref:  The following: 
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29633/29633-h/29633-h.htm   This paper if 
complete on line for you to read and study.

Kelley, was started down this path but never did anything with it and didn't 
play the patent angle until Bessemer applied in the USA.

It was Bessemer that made it work and Bessemer that change the world with 
the development of low cost steel.  There is little to show that Bessemer 
ever knew of Kelley's work.  It is not stealing to come up with the same 
idea as someone else who had the idea but never put it to practical use. 
Bessemer himself falls in this class with the invention of the 
open-hearth -- he had a similar development with a glass furnace but never 
applied it to iron and steel -- that had to wait for Siemens.

Dave

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From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 7:11 AM
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [TheForge] Yale Yellin gate...

> I hate cities.
>
> I went to New Haven yesterday, figuring a Sunday would be relatively
> slack.  I couldn't find a parking place anywhere near Yale.  I found
> one $6 lot completely unattended - but I wouldn't leave the car there
> and risk returning and finding it towed.  Finally I found a spot a few
> blocks away from the Harkness Tower, where one Yellin gate is
> allegedly located.
>
> http://www.yale.edu/publicart/yellin.html
>
> The tower is easy to find - it's a tower, after all. But no gate.  The
> area is cordoned off from the street side for construction.  And
> despite being informed that Yale is an "open campus" - it's not true.
> I walked around the quad and found it takes a pass card to get to the
> inside of the quad.  By this time I'd done a lot of walking and seen
> no significant ironwork.  The bimbo I reached by phone at the
> visitors' center didn't know squat, so I gave up and decided not to
> waste any more of the day in New Haven.
>
> Whence, I went to a bookstore well out of town and found a book that
> documents how Bessemer stole Wm. Kelley's "pneumatic process" for
> making steel.
>
> -- 
> Bruce
> NJ
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