Gigantic Steel Ingot.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 3, 2 January 1907, Page 104

Gigantic Steel Ingot.

What is probabh the laigest steel ingot e\ er made was recently cast at Manchester England It weighed 120 tons and is being used in the manufacture of the low-pressuie turbine motors lor the new 70 000-h p turbine steamships of the Cunard Line \ltei the moulten steel was poured from the melting-furnace the huge mould-box was pushed under an immense hydraulic pi ess having a hydraulic lam six feet in diameter and a working pressure of three tons per square inch The ingot, while in a molten condition was subjected to the enormous piessure of 12 000 tons I his piocess made it homogeneous and sound thioughout, and fiee from ciacks and fissures.