Show A SUN SURFACE sir he henry nry bessemer Be Biemer tells tell of the facture of f an experiment sir hen henry ry bessemer the well known inventor of the steel process bears his name tells how he tried to construct a sun furnace and failed his invention says the pittsburgh dispatch was intended to revolutionize not only the science of metallurgy but the whole world it was to attain a temperature of nearly sixty thousand degrees and therefore fuse anything and everything and sir henry puts the blame of its failure to fulfill these expectations on the stupidity of a country len the sun furnace consisted of a wooden building thirty feet high and about twelve feet square A few feet from the ground was fixed a large inclinable mirror for catching the rays of the efin sun from this mirror the rays were to be reflected onto a number of powerful super imposed lenses above which by a simple arrangement ran gement were to throw the enormously concentrated rays upon whatever object might be in the crucible below such was the mighty plan but the manufacturer of the lipper upper glasses brought it miserably to naught for instead of turning them out uniform he made them all differ different eni and thus spoiled the focus sir henry was so disgusted and heartened disheartened dis that he refused to go over the ground again and so 0 the pretentious scheme la lapsed p sed but she the peculiar furnace remains to this day a remarkable monument of what might have been |