Ribbon of Fire: How Europe adopted and developed US strip mill technology (1920-2000)

Like railways in the 19th century and the Internet in the 21st century, steel strip production was a technology that unlocked growth in a wide range of user industries during the 20th century. Invented in America in the 1920's to supply the fast growing auto industry with steel sheets, the wide strip mill spread to Europe, allowing a wide range of modern manufacturing industries to emerge before and after the Second World War. This pioneering book shows how construction of these giant strip...