Part 6

Part 6 of Wonders of World Engineering was published on Tuesday 6th April 1937, price 7d.

It includes a colour plate showing Pouring Molten Steel from a Bessemer Converter illustrating the article on Fuel for the Modern Steelworks. The plate also appeared as the front cover of this issue.

The Cover

This week’s cover shows white-hot molten steel being poured from a giant skip into a casting, one of the most impressive sights in a modern steelworks.

Contents of Part 6

Battersea Power Station (Part 2)

Germany’s Overland Canal

Fuel for the Modern Steelworks

Pouring White Hot Steel From a Bessemer Converter

(colour plate)

POURING WHITE HOT STEEL from a Bessemer converter into a ladle for transport to the ingot moulds. The converter is charged with molten pig iron through which air is blown. The air causes the carbon, silicon and other impurities in the iron to burn fiercely so that no fuel is used in the process of conversion. To make pig iron from iron ore, however, large quantities of coke are required and at modern steelworks there is often a battery of ovens continuously at work producing coke from coal.

This colour plate also appeared on the cover of this issue.

Power From Scotland’s Lochs

Turbine-Driven Locomotive

Giant Telescopes

The World’s Land Speed Record (Part 1)