Hoyt had been representing crucible steels for twenty years; his previous companies included the Braeburn Steel Company, Singer, Nimick and Company and the Sanderson Brothers Steel Company.
42.
Only recently it has become apparent that places in Central Asia like Merv in Turkmenistan and Akhsiket in Uzbekistan were important centres of production of crucible steel.
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In August 1945, she was sold to Crucible Steel Company of Pittsburgh, and renamed the " W . P . Snyder Jr . " in September 1945.
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Before the 19th century, almost all iron in Finland was made from limonite on charcoal blast furnaces, which yield very pure and high-quality iron suitable for crucible steel.
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The known sites of crucible steel production in south India, i . e . at Konasamudram and Gatihosahalli, date from at least the late medieval period, 16th century.
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Sandersons had finally stopped using their cementation furnaces in the 1920s, and Kayser Ellison soon demolished these, along with the west range of crucible steel shops from the 1870s.
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In 1870 Osborn met Robert Forester Mushet, an iron master working in the Forest of Dean where he was producing a new alloy steel, considered far superior to crucible steel.
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Benjamin Huntsman, a clockmaker from Sheffield, had pioneered a process to make crucible steel in 1740, but the British had managed to keep it secret, forcing others to import steel.
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In 1981 Colt moved the Crucible and Trent Tube Divisions to Syracuse from Pittsburgh, and the following year it began closing its Crucible Steel Plant ( laying off 400 workers ).
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The site is dated between the third century BC and the third century AD . By the seventeenth century the main centre of crucible steel production seems to have been in Hyderabad.
