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by the screw, in ocean steamers. In 1859, he went to Europe with 
Mr. H.J. RAYMOND, as correspondent forthe New York 7zmes,and met 
BRUNEL and SCOTT RUSSELL, the projectors of the ‘“‘ Great Eastern,” 
which vessel he studied, and returned to America in her on the first 
trip. When writing for the New York Zzmes, it was under the xom de 
plume of Tubal Cain. 
About this time we also find him editing the Amerzcan Razlway Re- 
veew; and in 1860, he published “ Railway Practice.” In the year 
1862, he went to Europe to investigate ordnance and armor, in behalf 
of Mr. E. A. STEVENS of Battery fame ; and the result of this visit was 
a book on these subjects published in 1865, which was translated and 
published in France. During this time (in 1864), he contributed 1000 
definitions and several hundred figures to Webster’s Dictionary. 
While in Ergland, studying ordnance and armor, he met Mr. HENRY 
BESSEMER, and became interested in the process of making steel, 
which was to render hisname most famous, and give America the fore- 
most position in the world in the manufacture of this indispensable 
material. 
BESSEMER first announced his discovery of making steel by blowing 
air through molten iron, in the year 1856, at the Cheltenham meeting 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; and 
HOLLEY was ainong the first to appreciate its value. In 1862, he first 
became identified with this process of manufacture; and his connection 
with it became a series of engineering triumphs almost without par- 
allel, till his death. 
The first steel works in the United States to use the BESSEMER pro- 
cess were those at Troy, and the first ingot of metal was cast in 1864. 
Three years later the works at Harrisburg were built by Mr. HOLLEy, 
and he managed them till 1869. He rebuilt the Troy Works and 
planned the works at North Chicago and Joliet, Ill., the Edgar Thom- 
son Works at Pittsburg, and the Vulcan Works at St. Louis. From 
the trial ingot cast at Troy in 1864, the industry has grown until the 
product of a year now amounts to more than a million of tons. And 
this gigantic industry owes much of its success to the active brain and 
patient industry of Mr. HOLLEY. 
In the year 1877, he was made consulting engineer to the Bessemer 
Steel Association of America, and became the idol of the manufactur- 
ers. He was a fine speaker and a ready wit, and there was that in his 
discourse that made his sentences always pleasing to the ear. From 
1875 to 1876, he was President of the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers. During the following year, he was Vice-President of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers ; and, in 1879, he organized and 
became first President of the American Society of Mechanical Engin- 
