Monday, October 11, 2010

Development of Industries

Development of Industries

  • Metallurgy- a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemistry behavior of metallic elements commonly used in the craft of metal working
  • A major change was the replacement of organic fuels based on wood with fossil fuels based on coal
  • Production of cast steel
  • Iron and steel :abundant cheap iron, cast iron was available for mechanical devices
  • Henry Bessemeyer and Siemers Martin processes that help to improve the industry.
  • Low grade industries
  1. s.g. thomas & percy gilchrist invented the slog
  • Discovery of alloys
  • Steamboat and ship
  1. Robert Fulton proved the value of his smoke belching invention "the clermont steamboat"

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