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Holley (ALEXANDER LYMAN an American)

ALEXANDER LYMAN, an American metallurgist; born in Lakeville, Conn., July 20, 1832; was graduated at Brown University in 1853. About 1863 he went to England and purchased for Corning, Winslow & Co. the Bessemer patents for the manufacture of steel. The first Bessemer works were built by him in Troy, N. Y., in 1865, and the second plant in Harrisburg, Pa., in 1867. He was Lecturer on the Manufacture of Iron and Steel at Columbia University in 1879-1882. Holley se- HOLLIS cured about 16 patents, of which the most important was probably that for the detached converter-shell, an improvement in the Bessemer process. His publications include "The Permanent Way and Coal-burning Locomotives of European Railways, with a Comparison of the Working Economy of European and American Lines (1858); "American and European Railway Practice" (1860); "A Treatise on Ordnance and Armor" (1865); etc. He died in Brooklyn, N.

Y., Jan. 29, 1882. A colossal bronze bust of him has been placed in Washington Square Park, New York City, as a testimonial from the mechanical engineers of the United States and Europe.