Abstract
Introduction: Sheffield and the genesis of the American trade Part I. Special Steel Technology: 1. The birth of the American crucible steel industry 2. Science and art: Sheffield and American crucible steel technologies contrasted 3. The response to a new technology: electric steelmaking Part II. The Development of Special Steels: 4. The rise of alloy steels 5. The evolution of high-speed steel 6. Contrary to nature: the discovery of stainless steel Part III. Sheffield Steelmakers and Toolmakers in America: 7. Transatlantic special steels I: the crucible steelmakers 8. The rise and decline of Sheffield's high-speed trade with America, 1900-30 9. Transatlantic special steels II: steel casting enterprises 10. Quality pays? Sheffield and American cutlery manufacture 11. Innovation and adaptation: the evidence of the sawmaking trades 12. Men versus machines: the story of the file 13. How Sheffield lost the American trade: aspects of the marketing of Sheffield products in America Conclusion: a century of commercial and technological interdependence in steel Appendix.
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