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Title | The Autobiography of John Fritz |
Subject | Iron & Steel |
Description | xvi, 326 p. incl. front., illus., plates, ports. pl. 24 cm. |
Creator | Fritz, John, 1822-1913. |
Publisher | New York: J. Wiley & Sons |
Contributors | Lehigh University |
Date | 1912 |
Identifier | LVLOBJ 0209 |
Annotation | John Fritz was born in 1822 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was apprenticed as a blacksmith and became a wheelwright. He later supervised the building of an iron making furnace. In 1860 he became General Superintendent and Chief Engineer of the Bethlehem Iron Works. In 1864 he supervised the building of a Bessemer converter for the firm. After retiring in 1892 he became a trustee of Lehigh University, and engaged in other civic work in the community. He died in 1913 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. |
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