Forging steel – No Longer A Laborious Job
At the end of the 19th century, steel started growing at a rapid pace, and so did employment in steel production. Following the introduction...
Pulmans - An Old Dog With Some New Tricks
Providing our customers with the quality of service that has come to be expected from Pulman Steel means we have to stay on top of the latest,...
Pulmans Is Old News
After 187 years in the business, Pulmans has seen a lot of changes. The steel market has come a long way, and we at Pulmans have come a long...
Henry Bessemer's Early Life
Sir Henry Bessemer is the iconic inventor renowned for revolutionising the steelmaking industry by introducing the Bessemer Process, which gave...
Origins Of The Steelpan
As steel charged into the 20th century with a flood of new uses due to more efficient production methods, a rather unexpected invention emerged...
Remembering The Pulman Brothers Lost In The Great War
On Saturday 29th April at 12:30pm, Lister Lane Cemetery will be hosting a Spring Open Day, commemorating those lost in the Great War, including...
The History of Steel
Steel has become the go-to material for countless applications in the modern world, making it hard to imagine what life would be without it....
A dip into American steel history
At the turn of the Century one Andrew Carnegie sold his Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Steel Company, for a staggering $480 million, approximately...
The Bessemer Process, and Its Adaptations
The brilliant British inventor, Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-1898), was the dynamo behind the introduction of mass production steel. Reasoning that...
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