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Rudolf Gnade (Hg.): The Metallurgist Johann Conrad Fischer, 1773-1854, and his relations with Britain. Schaffhausen 1947. 65 Seiten.

Content	page
Johann Conrad Fischer and his times	7
The town of Schaffhausen at the end of the Old Regime	7
Fischer's origin and education	9
In the service of his hometown	11
Johann Conrad Fischer as a Metallurgist	14
Fischer produces the first cast steel on the Continent	15
First journey to England. Further development of cast steel	20
Fischer's Meteor Steel. Introduction of the malleable iron casting process into Austria	24
Steel casting, an invention of Fischer's	33
Fischer's participation in the Great Exhibition in London, 1851	39
Johann Conrad Fischer's impressions on Britain	46

Identifier: GFA 30/1
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