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Inventor of New Steel Process

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Inventor of New Steel Process

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title : Inventor of New Steel Process

physical description: p28, p30-31

date : 19721018

description: TWO PROPHETS OF STEELMAKING ART by R. G. GIBBENS (Montreal Star)MONTREAL.-- A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country ... it almost fits the case of Canadian Liquid Air researchers Guy Savard and Robert Lee.Inventors since the days of Bessemer in the last century have been dreaming of the ideal way of making steel. They have never found the Philosopher's Stone, but tremendous strides have been made in making better steel and more cheaply -- or you wouldn't have more than 100 million vehicles on the roads in North America, for one thing.Savard and Lee, working for the Worldwide Air Liquid group in Montreal, were specialists in oxygen and in techniques of supplying it in quantities and under pressure. It was the early fifties. Oxygen steelmaking processes were coming in commercially in many countries for the first time. (continues in p28, 30-31)

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