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Bill Rogel Transcript
ROGEL: Well, when the air is produced at the old Bessemer by a compound engines, they blow the air just like as though you'd have a pump that you're pumping the tire up with, only it produces a volume air comes up through the bottom and blows up through the iron, shakes that iron up just like as though it was a grinder, other that it just boils it, in other words you watch a coffee pot boiling that's what if you'd be able to stand there and look at it, you'd see that iron boiling and the impurities are blowed out and then the quality of steel comes out of that. Now they could change it by making high carbon steel, but throwing in anthracite coal or something like that, and then once that vessel is done boiling they'll dump it and they'll go into the molds.
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