A Century of American Steel: The Strip Mill and the Transformation of an Industry

by Kenneth Warren

Book Overview

The steel industry provides much of the material basis for modern civilisation. Although its end products are numerous, the largest sector of the industry is involved in the production of wide strip. This is used by countless other industries to make a range of products from automobile bodies, and the cases of domestic appliances, to metal furniture and cans for the preservation of foodstuffs and drinks. A hundred years ago sheet steel was made in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498577008
• ISBN13: 9781498577007
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"