A PAPER by F. W. Harbord at the autumn meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute gives an account of the history of the Thomas-Gilchrist basic process from 1879 to the present date, from the preliminary ...

The basic process for making steel hasn’t changed a whole lot in the past few hundred years. Into the top of a big, lava lamp-shaped blast furnace goes iron ore and coking coal, and out comes waste ...