Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
nation's history has been a lot more record of andrea victory genocide of
wars waged in battles one
its greatness lies in blowing premises and smoking stacks
in the skilled labor
inventive genius
and the spirit of enterprise
that is so typical of america
and typical of the steel industry
literally the backbone of opposing industries
if the panorama dot reveals the magnitude of any one of the major meals
where the manufacture of steel involves a tremendous an estimate
here before where they can be given a job
the company by which he is employed
western aborigine more than eleven thousand dollars for each man employed
and that does not include rages
incidentally
note one unusual feature of this industrial scene
which would not be found in any other country in the world
the automobiles are a work in the mails
men who are now read rate in the history of the industry
into such a center of activity
the raw material support from train and ***
thousands of tons of *** for the blast furnaces
mountains of iron ore
and vast quantities of limestone
they are charging apprentice
or from which the iran has to be dealt with
to provide an intense heat in the base of the finest
as a superheated air blast passes through it
limestone to *** the impurities from the or
up to the top gold the laden larry to feed one of these giants that may deduct
as much as three thousand tons of solid raw material today
now they are preparing to tap apprentice at the base
where they may draw off as much as a hundred tons of mold in iran at a time
an oxygen talks brands into a play plug holes
but no chance for injury on this job
that asbestos suit in helmet would protect than any stray spots all
splatters
often stream of metal begins to fall
flowing liquid iron
the stream swells in volume
afire river if you ever saw one
but you have been uninitiated onlooker could not be expected to know
that these men in charge are very much in command
with modern mechanical devices and highly developed safety measures
that enable them to control the flowing metal with less danger to themselves
that new based every day in your home or on the street
today the amend steel mill is as safe a place to work as an e industrialist
average man
company of the company has prided itself on winning safety trophies
which stand for a prolonged period without a single serious accident
a sample of a metal will be cast into a small block
and called for a quick analysis by the metallurgical laboratory to check its
quality
meanwhile
the flaming rivers directed through channels which lead to the edge of the
tapping for
where it's spilled into usually does resting on flat cars
let you know i have to label is filled
until finally
laden trainers on its way across the yard to its destination
the steel making departments
where the more than i am in the ladles would be poured into a large container
called the mixer
holding many towns
and he had cut off
so that it can be used in that smoking state in one of the three major
processes in making studios
of the is the best of my converter process is the oldest for producing a
college product
available at low cost for a multitude of uses
here's down the operators and safety behind shatter proof glass
number three is going to four
one of the monsters like a huge egg with a top sliced off
kids over on its plugins and pours into a legal it's a load of steel
that blows like the sunset
and shoots and millions of sparks through the didn't raise freeze up
graders and all that on the length of the arena
very different from the spectacular bessemer
is the slot little electric furnace
which makes special steals because of its more capacity
and the ease with which it can be controlled so accurately
from this process from the high grade alloy steels
such as stainless and all sorts of special studios with special qualities
and then the robbie open hearts
while the rowing flame and fireworks from bessemer converters still provide a
thrilling spectacle
and capacity for producing steel in the electric furnace has been increasing in
the last few years
ninety percent of steel today is produced in auburn ha furnaces
because of the demand for taylormade steals in large quantities which can be
produced with this flexible and efficient method
and by the way
there is one interesting factor in the making of steel just as important as the
*** i m fresh from or smothered in the blast furnace
it is strapped
most of the scrap metal will be found on route to the open market bought them
rebounded scrap steel constituting about fifty percent
up a talk with steel produced today
there's a carload of sheer two hands
there's another
and there is a car that may hold all that is left of your nineteen twenty
nine automobiles
now on its way to become part of a steel and a better steel
perhaps for your next car
in this huge structure
the open-heart floor which is typical of american steel mills
along line apprentices cold steel in the making
steel that will someday enter your life
perhaps carry you safely on some journey
provide you with shelter
create an endless variety of comforts and conveniences
a supply a finely ground dolomite has been filed before the premise that is to
be charged
it will melt like glass and feel any role that may have been burned through
the lining by the previous e
forming a solid bottom for the press chart
then the charging begins
from the train load of scrap which has been brought close to the plan is
an electric charting machine lift box at the box
and pushes its burden through the door the furnace
the operator sitting at a safe distance spinning the ram and dumping it slowed
there at the rumble of a giant traveling grain overhead moving in with its voting
argues later love more than i am from the mixer
where it has been awaiting this final step in the process of becoming steel
they are placing the shoe into position for plotting the chart
and that the crane draws near
note that the men actually handling the metal
are either sheltered high up on the crane in the cabin
or operate electrical controls across the floor
there goes the charge
fifty tons of white hot liquid metal heated to approximately two thousand
eight hundred degrees fahrenheit
hazardous
frightful danger in this job
not at all
millions of dollars have been spent by modern steel mills of america for safety
devices are employed which not only protect the worker from molten metal
from metallic dustin for applying chips
but also from human carelessness
mission of steel production has made works simpler and safer
men are not doing dangerous jobs at the machine can do more safely
but more man and more confident men are required to control the machine
and the safety of cheap one of the steel industry
is a high tribute to the intelligence of these men who were in the meals
like good cooks
they must know the temperature of the group
and they measure at on an optical barometer while it boils in a white hot
pool as big as a pair of size room
and like good books
they even take several samples of the brew using a long handled small ladle
to pick up another liquid steel to pass that test india
it conceals almost instantly
and assume dumped out and handled quite readily when it is proven
it will go to the metallurgical laboratory for a thorough but quick
examination
before the medal from which it was taken is drawing ought to be made in this
field
thousands of different kinds of steals all made like this everyday
each steel strange as it may seem
uh... custom-built product
each different steel
the feeling of a prescription
to bear certain suv to be of a certain hardness
to be solved
flexible
to be tailor made for each one of
thousands abuses
now they are ready to tampa bay gone and they must reach across to the opposite
side of the furnace to break through the clay plug tapping gold from the inside
but the place to see the spectacular part of the operation
is on the other side of the open often misses
ran asbestos called worker
brand through the exterior of the clay plug coupled with an awesome jim talk
show
a few more ramming blows with along to having on
and very shameful
two hundred tons of steel produced according to specifications
for one of an infinite variety abuses
just the proper percentages of carbon and other elements are retained in every
dips to you
saw that it will possess the exact characteristics needed
man on the platform of shovel in the correct amount of spiegel
federal mandates
from silicon
or whatever agent the metallurgical laboratory has prescribed for this
particular heat of metal
higher and higher amounts in the great ladle
until this flag the undesirable portion of the charges
rises to the top like fall
and although close to find a future usefulness has a by-product in other
lines of business
the electric rain moves into line
to carry that label to the following platform
where train of cars bearing the end of moses waiting
when this modem metal has been poured into bowls
the basic business of making steelers and
thereafter
it is only a matter of fashioning from the and gets the form of product desire
that's still man says that this fire a liquid freezes immediately in the motive
he means
that'd congealed when a temperature or goes down about ten degrees or so
and within an hour
is frozen too *** the outside for rolling
dos it is not probably uniform consistency
so out of the molds are stripped from the and gets
waiting from five to fifteen tons of peace
the huge castings out all the way to a friend is called a soaking pit
in which they are needed
on two of the same temperature up for a while
and which holds them at exactly the right he
wally and i love the modern blacksmith
the rolling mill
now this deal is fairly on its way to you
because in this one chunk of white hot metal
then maybe thousands of cans
kitchen utensils
or perhaps the materials for all the mobile bodies
refrigerators
and innumerable things into everyday use
and there's universal use of steel as possible
because its cost is only two or three cents a pound
the lowest of any important battle
the widens trip continuous nato made it possible to provide cheap steel wide
enough for the all steel automobile body
and a one p steel top on the models of today
it is one of the many great advances in the art of steel making
which has brought the saving to the consuming public in the whole mob lower
prices for better steel
amounting to nearly three hundred million dollars a year
compared with cost up ten years ago
auto mobile users although not eating seventy five million dollars a year
bought in spite of nice
more men are needed in the mail
and employment
is now at the highest level in the industry's history
there goes that end if you saw
now a hot slap
flattened any longer a good on its way to further reductions
now reduced by for the rolling to the size of a armor plate
and i'll be coming out huge spirit
several feet wide and less than a quarter of an inch thick
it moved to the table of where it will not wait its turn in the quiting machine
corelle dot
it is subsequently cold rolled flak
after passing through an acid ttenzing back
to processes
which vastly improved this movements and polish of the surface before it is cut
into the lengths prescribed by the factory
to which it is to be delivered
in general
only the rare metals such as gold all platinum have ever offered much
resistance to corrosive attack
until the steel industry developed stainless steels
which have made this metal practical for an endless variety of uses
wherein it combines beauty
with resistance to rust and corrosion
look at that polish
uh... prominent mirror like surface
perhaps destined for some swanky cocktail bar all the kitchen of a modern
home
here is an operation which constitutes in itself or critical test of steel
the piercing of a solid billet to form a seamless too
and here's another interesting operation
also a critical test of steel
making of a carb meal
look we all must retain its specification factors of strength and
ability to take it
when subsequently
it will be calming over the rails
on another male albanian good begins to take form with the first drop rolling
becoming elongated
at passes through another role
and then assuming a familiar shape
as we see the outline of an h_ column
destined for some skyscraper
or perhaps a great steel bridge
the operators of the mill up there a public and completely shut off from the
heat of that white hot steel
spin it around
role it by pressing buttons on throwing levers
and finally deliberate at the bottom of the mill
are completely finished job
c_e_o_s
passed through various milk processes all combinations of processes
in order to make them suited to a wide variety of uses
in any giant made a lot more metal
then maybe steal that is destined to be beat time and distance
to provide the framework of mighty building
and around her into the day tonight but every citizen involvement of things
that provide comfort
and convenience
real economy
the cold war steel drum every section of america
is a demand for a basic material without bridge
life and living standards as we know them today
would be impossible
steel has history of an anticipated
the increasingly divination
provide a nation with its combo
it's luxuries