IR Museaum Expoisitory piece

Steel Mills.

Steel mills in general are industrial mills where pig iron is converted into high quality steel. Pig iron is raw iron. Pig iron has very high carbon content. Pig iron was converted in to high quality steel by blowing out the impurities. Steel mills were made for that process. A very well known man by the name of Henry Bessemer had gone public with this idea, after William Kelly. William Kelly actually introduced the idea. However, due to his financial problems, he was bankrupt. Therefore, he was forced into selling his patent. This is the part when Henry Bessemer comes in, to continue with what William Kelly left behind. Every steel product we use today is produced using what the British inventor, Henry Bessemer, had left us. The converter called the Bessemer converter is used for blowing air into molten rock. This process itself is naturally called, the Bessemer’s process.

Child labor was used a lot in the days of industrial revolution. Many of the steel mills had used child labor. Child labor is when children of six or above are forced to work for owners who pay them little and feed them little. There are many people who grew up crippled because of these dangerous machines.

In conclusion, Steel mills are very useful because they turn molten steel into ingots through hot rolling. An ingot is a piece of metal heated into a bar or block. Later on, they would be melted into other forms in industries. Steel mills help us today, and will help the future. Again, thanks to Sir Henry Bessemer and William Kelly.