| Show 11 4 z it I 1 ft 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 fr f r y w I 1 r A J ame I 1 successful INVENTORS it II Is refreshing in considering the notable achievements of great anven tars to happen upon upion an occasional instance itt where fortune has ha not only smiled on but has well rewarded genius Us it Is far too often the case cage that the successful inventor closes hla his life in poverty and dist distress and leaves to others other the harvest of substantial benefits which in justice should have been his sir henry henny tl scemer was a marked exception to this class while bessemer did not invent steel he h dis di a process for Us its manufacture I 1 that has revolutionized the iron and steel working industry of the entire world up till the time when his ex pert ments ts were crowned with success 11 the making of steel was a very slow I 1 and consequently a very laborious process oro cess and steel had a comparatively restricted application iu in the industrial I 1 arts in a rn measure ensure the alit discovery di disco ery of bes emers demers process was accidental to begin with he had no knowledge of f chemistry and metallurgy when he first set about his investigation to turn iron into steel but he visited many man places where iron was wrought and he kept his hi eyes e es open opell he saw that in the slow procesa of f the particles of molt u were grad nally brou broucht ht mio iulo c contact wih the air and that this seemed to in time produce a fair quantity of steel ila hail be known the chemistry which nau waa at work during bechemer bc Be hemer teel steel undoubtedly w would ault have hae been made some years ear sooner than it t was but he be only onh saw the mechanical parl pan of the operation tiou he knew that it was a great deal easier to stir aji than ehan it was to stir iron and it was while recovering reco ring fron from a severe illies I 1 that the idea came to hiru him of blow blowing lug air bedr through the melted iron As hclay in bed the breezes from au open window fanned his cheek and thia chii turned hi thoughts thought in in another cirei d r tion which proved to he tho the begin 1 ning of tho the problem lini s solution I 1 As soon as h he wa was sufficient v re covered to legume hl hi he be set about making mak ing a egort IE I 1 which 11 lie t test iet his new idea it 1 was wa so constructed construct on ted cd that a blaag bl ast ol of cold coid air was coreed into the bottom to RO that it would pass through the melted ron in the tipp upper r part parr of the retort the dar aj fui for the test arrived and henry bessemer was natural not the least excited of the group that thai gathered around the new nev ne v contrivance AN when lien the pig iron was waa melted the blast of an was va 4 tinned d in to prevent 1 the metal tilling the holes through gt w m inch aich the all air i entered then th the I 1 metal was poured in through the char glog hole by au an attendant stoker A tremendous commotion immediately immediate lj took place within the v vessel essel the molten iron to quote one present bounded bount led from side to side a violena ebullition was heard going ou on inside while a vehement violent flame ac with dazzling ej sparks arks burst bural from the throat hroar cf the cupola frow from I 1 which the slang was also als thrown throw a 11 large foam like masses A cast irol iroc I 1 plate of the kind ased usco to cover hole in th the P mem that had been su over the mouth of the vessel dissolved to a mist inist together toge thet with half a dozen arda bards of the chail by which it hung it Is not surprising that such an unusual sight boeltl have hae frightened not only the but the daring empen inester bessemer thought he saw in this ter terrific rifle demonstration of tac prime elements the complete failure of his plans lif ho wanted to shut hut of the rif air before the charge of iron birou was a spoiled polled or the furnace burned but the stopcock regulating the supply was vas sc c close to the retort that no one inic ini c go near it this proved tort fortunato for soon the commotion within the retort subsided suo sided the fury of de decarbo carboni ui bation had bad expended itself a and nd the product wai run off the result was as not quite satisfactory the product was for the most mort part burnt iron but Beg bessemer serner saw enough in the experiment e perl peri ment to encourage him in making a second trial and the product fann this proved to be malleable iron by further farther experiment it was found that by interrupting the process be fore the of tile the iron was complete the product was unmistakably steel which when tried pro ed to be of very good quality here was a discovery of immense import ance if malleable iron and steel stee could be produced direct from pig iron by a process so rapid and simple it could not fail before long to e effect t a nn n entire revolution in the iron tr trade and such stich it actually did many year tear before Beg bessemer semer closed hig hi long and successful career chicago post the tae left hand baud is passive and aad tin ill riot right hand is active a palmist tell us when you see a persons left band with excell excellent eLt lines and inen examine the right and find there are none of them there you may be sure that that person had talent and abil ity but neglected to make use of them when the conditions are reversed then the person perso n has made his or h her er awn character I 1 can tell a great eal about a person by the general twing feeling of the band the harder a land d is the less susceptible a person s to outside influences the less legs feeling a person is apt to have A soft aana li is apt to be the hand of a person of great susceptibility A fat labby hand band shows indolence and a i while soft puffy hand belongs to a must sensuous ious selfish person A person with hard dry hands is not usually active mentality will ettres make a hard hand band there Is more character charae ter in the cumb than jn I 1 any an y other part of the hanl hand ot oi Tc course ourse one feature of a hand band cannot conclusive com elusive evidence of the th itlie trait atit itis it Is ts supposed to indicate for it nutty at 7 lu b by many others W j fv |
