Small scale Crucible steel making remained economically viable into the 1930s although manufacturing at the Well Meadow site ended in 1926.
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According to ExplorePAHistory . com, " By 1877, the region's fourteen medium-scale crucible steel factories produced nearly three-fourths of the nation's output.
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In 1802 a battery of beehives was set up near Sheffield, to coke the Silkstone seam for use in crucible steel melting.
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While crucible steel is more attributed to the Middle East in early times, there have been swords discovered in Europe, particularly in Scandinavia.
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In 1911 the Dayton Steel Foundry installed a 2-ton converter and changed from crucible steel melting to making steel by the converter process.
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In making crucible steel, the blister steel bars were broken into pieces and melted in small crucibles, each containing 20 kg or so.
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He then worked as a chemical analyst for the Crucible Steel Co . and Procter & Gamble before briefly attending Columbia University Medical School.
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Crucible steel is steel that has been melted in a crucible rather than having been forged, with the result that it is more homogeneous.
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An initial order for 930 rounds was placed on May 1943 with Crucible Steel, on the basis of OPf Model 1936 plans traced at Dakar.
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Apart from some production of puddled steel, English steel continued to be made by the cementation process, sometimes followed by remelting to produce crucible steel.
