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

Inhalt

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