Excerpt from Electric Furnaces in the Iron and Steel Industry The belief expressed in the writer's preface five years ago has been well home out. To-day there are over 212 electric furnaces in the iron and steel industry in the United States and Canada out of a total of 562. Over half a million tons of electric steel are being made annually the world over, and production only started less than a score of years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.