Pros and Cons of steel

1. Pros and Cons of steel Myles, Fendy, Josiah and Gervuens

2. How they made the Steel • In 1740 Benjamin Huntsman developed a way to manufacture steal, but the process impacted the quality and quantity of the steal. • The British steel developer Henry Bessemer produce a way to produce the greatest amount of steel than other ways used before. • He develop the Bessemer converter and it melted down the iron ores to produce steel. It was later upgraded to be able to tilt his was known as the fast action tilting Bessemer converter to tilt and pour the melted iron ore out. • With the Bessemer converter made they were able to converter twenty five tons of iron • Sources of information: http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/31814-industrial-revelations-bessemer-converter-video.htm

3. Process after the melted ore • It converted high phosphorus local iron ore in to steel which made Swedish iron less useful to the British. • After they made the melted iron ore they put the melted iron in a furnace and after twenty minutes it made the iron ore into solid steel. Sources of information http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/h-carnegie-steel.htm

4. Uses of Steel in society • Steel was used to improve the railroad tracks from standard regular iron tracks to steel rails for the trains to move on. • They were also used in the construction of structures; they used the steel to produce the first skyscraper with ten floors and nails. • With the ships in the ship yards they started to make them out of steel so the strength of the boat would have a stronger frame. Sources of information: http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/h-carnegie-steel.htm and http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/mf_flames.html

5. The workers in the steel mills • The workers inside the steel worked everyday of the week for twelve our shifts and only had one day of the year to not go to work which was the fourth of July. • The workers would sometimes find sometime to relax inside the steel mill but they all worked twelve hours non the less. • The people working in the mill were paid ten dollars a week and made and average of five hundred dollars a year. • Everyday the workers went to work in hot and hard steel mills. Source of information : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/mf_steelworker.html

6. Modern day uses • Today we use steel for building giant skyscrapers that reach over ten stories some reaching several dozen stories. • They are also used for the weapons that we developed for the war in Afghanistan and Iraq and armor plating that the soldiers wear inside their chest plating and armor to the cars that they get around in. • They even use it in the planes support beams to keep outside coverage in place. Source of information: Modern Marvels and Military channel

7. Cons of steel • The working conditions were long and hard, the workers inside the steel mills were always sweating from the heat of the Bessemer converter. • The shifts in their jobs lasted twelve hours every day of the week and the workers only have one day off the fourth of July. • The average worker in the steel mills received • The steel that was manufactured was later used in war to make guns and weapons of mass destruction or WMD for short.

8. Pros of steel • It is stronger and able to take more of a punishment than iron. • Its used to the frames of builds, planes, cars, trains and the boats that we use today get around the world with and the structures that we work inside of to have a stronger foundation for buildings and transportation. • Protection for policing and armor for soldiers in Kevlar vests and side reinforced armor on APC’s