01536nam a2200169Ia 450000500170000000800390001702000180005608200180007410000230009224500550011526000390017052009930020965000250120294200120122799900190123995201080125820260225135612.0260225s9999    xx          000 0 und d  a9780521109758  a338.7627bTWE  aTweedale, Geoffrey 0aSheffield Steel and America / cTweedale, Geoffrey  bCambridge University Press, c2009  aThe book provides an important contribution to the technological and commercial history of crucible and electric steelmaking by thoroughly examining its development in Sheffield and American centres such as Pittsburgh. It also discusses cutlery, saw and file manufacturing, where the Americans quickly shed Sheffield's traditional technologies and, with the help of superior marketing, established a word lead by 1900. It is also shown, however, that this did not free the US from its dependence on Sheffield steel. Sheffield's innovation in special steelmaking, which began with the Hunstman crucible process in 1742, continued with a series of brilliant 'firsts', which gave the world tool, manganese, silicon, vanadium and stainless steel alloys. Thus the US continued to draw from Sheffield know-how, even in the twentieth century - a transfer of technology that was facilitated by the foundation of Sheffield's own subsidiary firms in America, the history of which is recounted here.  aBusiness & Economics  cENGLISH  c615585d615585  00104070aACLbACLc4Ad2026-02-25l0o338.7627 TWEp236301r2026-02-25 13:56:12w2026-02-25yENGLISH