Steel-press
Metallic moulds receive the molten steel through suitable runners, after which mechanical means are employed for exerting a pressure on the fluid metal to force out the gases and give greater density to the steel. See PRESSING FLUID STEEL. Steering-bar is generally a long iron shank, swaged on one end to fit either a round or square shaft which projects beyond the bale of a geared or other crane ladle, on the opposite side to the man who pours, to steer the ladle during the operation. Ladles are also steered with a long rod having two projecting fingers forged at the end at right angles with the rod. These clip the bale or beam of the ladle, and thus control or steer it. See LADLES.
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Steele
SIR RICHARD, a British author: born in Dublin, Ireland, in March, 1672; was educated at Charter House School and Oxford; entered the army and was promoted captain. He commenced his literary career in 1702 by writing for the stage. In 1709 he began the "Tatler," and four years later assisted with the "Spectator" and "Guardian"; soon after he entered the House of Commons as a member for Stockport, but was expelled for writing a satire, supposed to be a breach of privilege. On the accession of George I, he was knighted, given several lucrative posts and returned to Parliament. Steele is best known as an essayist. He wrote religious treatise, "The Christian a Hero" (1790). Ar Among his plays are: "The Funeral, or Grief à la Mode," "The Tender Husband," "The Lying Lover," 69 STEEL SKELETON CONSTRUCTION and "The Conscious Lovers." He died near Carmarthen, Wales, Sept. 1, 1729.
WILBUR DANIEL, an American author, born at Greensboro, N. C., in 1886. He was educated at the University of Denver and studied art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Académie Julien, Paris, and the Art Students' League, New York. He wrote "Storm" (1914); "Land's End" (1918); and many short stories in numerous monthly and weekly magazines.
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Steelton
a borough in Dauphin co., Pa., on the Susquehanna river, the Pennsylvania canal, and the Philadelphia and Reading, and the Pennsylvania railroads; 3 miles E. of Harrisburg. It contains electric railroads, a National bank, and daily and weekly newspapers. Here are the extensive plant of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, a flour mill, shirt factory, planing mill, and brick works. Pop. (1910) 14,246; (1920) 13,428.
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Steen
JAN, a Dutch painter; born in Leyden, Netherlands, in 1626; studied under Adrian van Ostade; joine Ostade; joined the Leyden Guild of Painters in 1648, and for some time carried on the trade of a brewer at Delft. A sympathetic observer of human life, he painted genre pictures from every plane of life, the lowest as well as the highest. The grave humor of his style is best seen in such pictures as the "Doctor Visiting His Patient," a "Cavalier Giving Lessons on the Guitar to a Lady," "Domestic Life," "Tavern Company," "The Oyster Girl," "Work and Idleness," "Bad Company," "Old Age," and particularly the pieces of childhood; e. g., the pictures called "St. Nicholas" and "Twelfth Night." He died in Leyden in 1679.
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Steevens
GEORGE WARRING- TON, an English journalist and writer, born at Sydenham, in 1869. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. After serving on the editorial staff of the "Pall Mall Gazette" for several years, he became, in 1897, special correspondent of the "Daily Mail." In this capacity he visited the United States, Egypt, Egypt, Greece, Gr India, and other countries. His letters to the "Daily Mail" were republished under the titles "The Land of the Dollar" (1897); "With the Conquering Turk" (1897); "With Kitchener to Khartum" (1898); "The Tragedy of Dreyfus" (1899); "From Cape Town to Ladysmith" (1900). He served as correspondent in the Boer War and the hardships which he endured there led to his death at Ladysmith, while it was besieged by the Boers, in 1900. He was considered the most eminent war correspondent of his time.
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Steffens
(JOSEPH) LINCOLN, an American writer and lecturer, born in San Francisco, Cal., in 1866. He graduated from the University of California in 1889 and studied philosophy at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Leipzig, and Paris. He was a newspaper editor in New York City from 1892 to 1902, when he became managing editor of "McClure's Magazine." From 1906 to 1911 he was an associate editor of the "American" and "Everybody's" magazines. His researches into the mismanagement and corruption of municipal politics, published in various newspapers and magazines, resulted in great improvement in these conditions. He wrote "The Shame of the Cities" (1904); "The Struggle for Self-Government" (1906); "Upbuilders" (1909); "The Least of These" (1910). He was a frequent contributor of articles and short stories to magazines.
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Stegosauride
a family of Stegosauria; vertebræ biconcave; ischia directed backward, with the sides meeting in the median line; astragalus coalesced with tibia, metatarsals short. Genera: Stegosaurus, some 30 feet long, well armed with enormous bucklers, some of which were spinous, from the Jurassic beds of the Rocky Mountains; Diracodon and Amosaurus.
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Steinbok
or STEENBOK, in zoölogy, the Antilope tragulus, from the stony plains and mountains of South Africa; rather more than 3 feet long, and about 20 inches high at the shoulder; red brown above, white below; tail rudimentary, ears large; horns straight, about 4 inches long in the male, absent in female; no false hoofs. Also, the ibex. STEGOSAURUS
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Stela
or STELE, in architecture, a small column without base or capital, serving as a monument, milestone, or the like. In archæology, a sepulchral slab or column, which in ancient times answered the purpose of a gravestone.
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Stelvio
PASS OF THE, the highest carriage road across the Alps (9,042 feet), leads from Bormio near the head of the Italian Valtelline to Sponding in the Vintschgau valley of the Austrian Tyrol. It forms part of the great road between Milan and Innsbruck, and was completed by the Austrian Government in 1825. It has a length of 33 miles, and is remarkable for its magnificent scenery.
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Stendal
a town of Prussian Saxony; 36 miles N. by E. of Magdeburg; was the former capital of the Altmark and has a Gothic cathedral (1420-1424), a Roland pillar, two old gateways, and a may be an- statue of Winckelmann, a native of the . In struc- place. There are here large railway endogenous, workshops and important textile indusgenerally tries. Pop. about 27,500. STENDHAL. See BEYLE, MARIE HENRI.
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