The Pressure Gauge at Forty-Four Exchange Place
Cornelius Vane had built his fortune on the principle that steel, like men, had a temperature at which it ceased to be what it was and became something else. He had learned this in the Bessemer furnaces of Pittsburgh, where he had started as a puddler's boy at fourteen and risen, by forty-seven, to own three mills, two railroads, and a seat on the board of the Merchants' Exchange at Forty-Four...
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