Robert Forester Mushet

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Robert Mushet

Robert Forester Mushet (born April 8, 1811 in Coleford , Forest of Dean (District) , Gloucestershire , † January 19, 1891 in Coleford) was a British metallurgist . He introduced some major improvements in the manufacture and processing of steel .

Life

Family home in Coleford
Remains of the Darkhill Ironworks

Robert Mushet was born in 1811, the youngest of eight children of Agnes Wilson and the well-known metallurgist and entrepreneur David Mushet. His middle name Forester , which he received after his birthplace (Forest of Dean), he rarely used. In 1845 he took over the management of Darkhill Ironworks from his father . In 1876 he received the Bessemer Gold Medal named after Henry Bessemer . He died in 1891 at the age of 79, leaving behind a wife, daughter Mary and two sons, Henry Charles Brooklyn and Edward Maxwell.

Services

In 1848 he began to experiment with fried iron . In 1856 he received a steel sample that had been produced by Henry Bessemer's method, which at the time could not yet deliver a usable quality. The combination ultimately led to a significant improvement in the Bessemer-Mushet process and the industrial use of manganese .

In 1857, Mushet was the first to produce railroad tracks from steel instead of cast iron , which significantly extended their durability.

In 1861 he improved steel casting using a hot topping process that he called Dozzle .

In 1868 he invented Robert Mushet's Special Steel (RMS) , the first tool steel . This alloy also contained tungsten .

literature

  • Fred M. Osborn, The Story of the Mushets, London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1952
  • Ralph Anstis: Man of iron - man of steel: the lives of David and Robert Mushet . Albion House, 1997, ISBN 095113714X .
  • Keith Webbb: Robert Mushet and the Darkhill Ironworks . Black Dwarf, 2001, ISBN 1903599024 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Forester Mushet on Britannica Online Encyclopedia . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved May 5, 2012.
  2. ↑ Richard Bissell Prosser:  Mushet, Robert Forester . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 39:  Morehead - Myles. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1894, pp. 430 - 432 (English).
  3. ↑ s. a. Darkhill Ironworks
  4. ^ LTC Rolt: Victorian engineering . Allen Lane, 1970.
  5. ↑ s. a. Mushet steel
personal data
SURNAME Mushet, Robert Forester
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mushet, Robert; Mushet, Robert Forrester
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British metallurgist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Coleford , Gloucestershire
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1891
Place of death Coleford , Gloucestershire