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Steel is the metal that built the modern world. When its formula was finally deciphered about one hundred and fifty years ago, it began to flow from hearths in increasing amounts. It built railroads, steel ships, skyscrapers, and bridges around the world, in the process propelling the great powers of the world - Great Britain, Germany, the United States, Japan and the Soviet Union - into global economic dominance, as well as into competition.
In "Steel", author Brooke C. Stoddard follows the fascinating story of iron and steel from pre-history through the Industrial Revolution and into the present age. Combining historical research with engaging firsthand reporting, Stoddard dives into the world of modern steelmaking to experience it for himself and to talk with the men and women that live in this world every day: he visits open-pit iron mines in the Mesabi Iron Range, rides with fifty eight thousand tons of iron ore on a thousand-foot ore boat from Duluth to Cleveland, climbs to the tip of the Northern Hemisphere's largest blast furnace, interviews workers and they toil next to their furnaces of liquid metal, and walks through the immense rolling mills where steel is pressed into final products.
The result is n extraordinary book about what many think of as ordinary, but in reality is the metal that forms the backbone of modern civilization.