Gilchrist and Thomas invent the basic steel process
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
Within five years of Gilcrist and Thomas’s 1879 invention of a way to turn cheap phosphoric ores into basic steel, there were eighty-four basic converters in operation in western and central Europe,16 and the process had also crossed the Atlantic. The result was more than a shift in the respective national shares of steel output; it also implied a significant shift in military potential.
chapter: The Shifting Balance of World Forces