Seven Elements That Have Changed the World (35 page)

3.
Ironclads fight it out. US Civil War, 1862.

4.
No warfare is fought without iron (and men made of iron). Krupp addressing Hitler and Mussolini. Krupp Factory, Essen, 1937.

5.
The mighty
Thunder Horse
astride its transport.

6.
The Bessemer process in action. Forging steel in Carnegie’s steel works, 1886.

7.
Bessemer lives on today: pig iron is poured into a Bessemer Converter. ThyssenKrupp, 2012.

8.
Bessemer and Carnegie caught in a corner of the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining, London, 2012.

9.
Henry Clay Frick painted with possessions.

10.
Financed by steel but made without it: Carnegie Hall in the year of its opening, 1891.

11.
A thousand years old and on sticks: the 19-foot tall Iron Lion of Cangzhou.

12.
An engineering feat of the day: the Flatiron building. Stieglitz’s iconic photograph, 1902-3.

13.
Ruffling skirts on a postcard, 1907.

14.
Carbon spectacular! Watched from a gondola. Festa del Redentore, Venice.

15.
The site of the blowout: Rig 20 at Naft Safid, Iran, 1951.

16.
Symbols of London. Smoked out, 1958.