crucible steel casting
method, process, technology
Process for manufacturing workpieces by pouring molten steel into dies and then leaving it to cool.
Johann Conrad Fischer began applying the method in 1845 and travelled to England to publicize it that same year.
Fischer called his invention cast bar iron. What this term actually meant was not the actual casting of bar iron, but rather the castings made of molten bar iron.
Traveljournal 1845
- Gnade, Rudolf/Schib, Karl: Johann Conrad Fischer 1773–1854. Aus der Schriftenreihe zum hundertfünfzigjährigen Bestehen der Georg Fischer Werke. Schaffhausen 1954, S. 59–66.