Bethlehem Steel # 1
by Marcia Lee Jones
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Bethlehem Steel # 1
Artist
Marcia Lee Jones
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Photograph - Photography
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The steel industry in So. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
The mill was source of innovation on the grandest scale possible during the turn of the century. A 125-ton steam drop hammer was designed and installed at Bethlehem to forge the thick armor plates, the largest of its type. Even so, it was replaced only two years later by a 14,000 ton force hydraulic forging press designed by Bethlehem's chief metallurgist Russell Davenport, again the largest of its kind to be built. In 1904, Charles M. Schwab who had resigned from U.S. Steel, had formed the Bethlehem Steel Corporation with Joseph Wharton, and the company moved into position as the leader in the American steel industry.
The mill was source of innovation on the grandest scale possible during the turn of the century. A 125-ton steam drop hammer was designed and installed at Bethlehem to forge the thick armor plates, the largest of its type. Even so, it was replaced only two years later by a 14,000 ton force hydraulic forging press designed by Bethlehem's chief metallurgist Russell Davenport, again the largest of its kind to be built. In 1904, Charles M. Schwab who had resigned from U.S. Steel, had formed the Bethlehem Steel Corporation with Joseph Wharton, and the company moved into position as the leader in the American steel industry.
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