The Chemistry of the Bessemer Process

Troy, NY: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1870. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's green printed wrappers; 23pp. Wrappers a bit soiled with some shallow creasing and dog-earing to textblock, else Very Good and sound. At head of title page: "Metallurgical Papers No. 15." Scarce published edition of the author's first scientific paper, read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Troy, New York, August 20, 1870, and described as "the first account of [the Bessemer steel process] published in the United States and a useful analogue of the earth's own blast furnaces" (anb.org). AAS only in OCLC as of April, 2020.