IperionX pilot titanium facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, built with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA-E program. I always have an eye out for major manufacturing process innovations ...

One of the most important materials in today’s world is steel. It has become an integral building block in humanity’s ever-expanding domain on Earth and lets us build everything from towering ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. 1856: Englishman Henry Bessemer receives a U.S. patent for a new steel-making process that revolutionizes the industry. The Bessemer converter was a squat, ugly, ...

The nuclear age changed steel, and for decades we had to pay the price for it. The first tests of the atomic bomb were a milestone in many ways, and have left a mark in history and in the surface of ...

MR. BESSEMER has lately patented a method of conducting his process of converting cast-iron into steel under pressure, in order to raise the temperature of the metal during the process of conversion, ...

Up to about 1870 railroad rails were made of iron because the cost of making steel in quantity was prohibitive. Then the converters invented by Henry Bessemer got going and steel became much cheaper.