Memoirs And Letters Of Sidney Gilchrist Thomas Inventor.
£35.00
Publisher
John Murray, Albemarle Street.
Place
London
Date
1891
Synopsis
Edited by r. w. burnie. with portraits.
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 7.75 x 5.25 inches. [11] + [1] + 314 pp. + [2] pp. publisher's advertisement. Bound in original maroon cloth, gilt., boards with blind stamped borders and block on front board. Rough cut fore edge. Patterned endpapers. A little wear to extremities, sunning of spine, darkening of top edge and light spotting of fore edge, flyleaves and verso of portraits; otherwise a very good clean copy. Binder's label, A. W. Bain, 80 Gray's Inn Rd. 1891 gift inscription on half title. Illustrated by 2 photogravure portraits, including frontispiece. The life and letters of the metallurgist and inventor Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850-1885), known for discovering the method of eliminating phosphorus from pig iron in the Bessemer converter, which greatly advanced the commercial production of steel. The early trials took place at the Blaenavon Ironworks in South Wales, leading to a patent in 1878. His work related journeys took him around the world from Europe to Australia and the letters include many fascinating details of his travels and life in other countries. The biographical account linking the letters together is by Robert William Burnie (1851-1933), barrister and clergyman.
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