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No other single factor has influenced the rapid expansion of the wire industry so much as the introduction of low-cost steel immediately after the American Civil War. This archival paper will trace the complicated and intertwined experiments which resulted in the advent of the pneumatic process for low-cost steel in the ten- year period 1856-1866.

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No other single factor has influenced the rapid expansion of the wire industry so much as the introduction of low-cost steel immediately after the American Civil War. This archival paper will trace the complicated and intertwined experiments which resulted in the advent of the pneumatic process for low-cost steel in the ten- year period 1856-1866.

Additional information

Author(s)

Donald Sayenga, Cardon Management Group, USA.

Publication/Event/Pages

Paper presented at WAI 59th Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA USA. Paper published in Wire Journal International, June 1990, pg. 36.

Year

1989