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    Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (16 April 1850 – 1 February 1885) was an English inventor, best known for his role in the iron and steel industry. Thomas was...
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    "basic Bessemer process" or GilchristThomas process after the English discoverers Percy Gilchrist and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas. A system akin to the Bessemer...
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  • William Gilchrist, American composer William Sidney Gilchrist, medical missionary to Angola Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, British inventor Caroline Gilchrist Rhea...
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    its inventors who patented it in 1877: Percy Carlyle Gilchrist and his cousin Sidney Gilchrist Thomas. By allowing the exploitation of phosphorous iron ore...
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  • Sidney Thomas may refer to: Sidney R. Thomas (born 1953), American lawyer and judge Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850–1885), English inventor Syd Thomas (1919–2012)...
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    the experiments by Sidney Gilchrist Thomas and his cousin Percy Gilchrist that led to "the basic steel process" or "GilchristThomas process". The ironworks...
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    becoming Emeritus Professor in 1989. Pickering was awarded the Sidney Gilchrist Thomas Medal in 1968, and the Sir Robert Hadfield Medal in 1971, both...
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    magnesite) is used. This variant is called the GilchristThomas process after its inventor Sidney Gilchrist Thomas who persuaded Richards to adopt it. The firm...
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    caused principally by the presence of phosphorus, were solved by Sidney Gilchrist Thomas in 1879. It was not until 1880 that an era of construction based...
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    important. Metallurgists Percy Gilchrist (1851–1935) and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850–1885) invented the GilchristThomas process, which enabled the use...
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  • Sidney Gilchrist Thomas and Percy C. Gilchrist. Snelus was awarded the 1883 Bessemer Gold Medal of the Iron and Steel Institute jointly with Thomas for...
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  • area one of the world's major centres of iron production. 1879: Sidney Gilchrist Thomas arrives in Cleveland and introduces the first commercial steel...
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  • computing Professor Karol Sikora, MA, PhD, MB BChir (born 1948) Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850–1885), inventor of the process of eliminating phosphorus...
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    Sidney Gilchrist Thomas developed a more sophisticated process to eliminate the phosphorus from iron. Collaborating with his cousin, Percy Gilchrist a...
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    phosphorus ore poor, until, in 1878, the GilchristThomas process, invented by Sidney Gilchrist Thomas and Percy Gilchrist, allowed for the separation of phosphorus...
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  • Gordon, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1833) February 1 – Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, British inventor (b. 1850) February 7 – Iwasaki Yataro, Japanese...
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    of fertilizers led to the use of the fertilizer discovered by Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (German: Thomasmehl or English: Albert-Slag). Together with the...
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  • January — Griffith J. Griffith, industrialist (died 1919) 16 April — Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (died 1885) 1851 24 March — Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys...
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    planner. Percy Gilchrist, British chemist and metallurgist who devised a standard method of making steel, with his cousin Sidney Gilchrist Thomas. Professor...
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  • steelmaking, developed at Blaenavon Ironworks by Percy Gilchrist and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, is first made public. May 22 – John Philip Holland's experimental...
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  • best known for his collaboration with his cousin, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, on the GilchristThomas process, which became the standard "basic process"...
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  • Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, astronomer (died 1917) 16 April – Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (died 1885) 26 April – Harry Bates, sculptor (died 1899)...
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  • (died 1950), American Nobel laureate in physiology February 1 – Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (born 1850), British inventor February 8 – Nikolai Severtzov (born...
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  • 1 February – Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (born 1850) 15 March – Jane Williams (Ysgafell), writer (born 1806) 18 March – Sir Thomas Bazley, 1st Baronet...
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    hæmatite blast furnaces, and his work with Sidney Gilchrist Thomas contributed to the development of the Gilchrist-Thomas process. In 1884 he was awarded the...
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    Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus Dalziel (1823–1906) was an English engraver known chiefly for his illustrations of the work of Charles Dickens. Thomas...
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    magnesite) is used. This variant is called the Gilchrist-Thomas process, after its inventor Sidney Gilchrist Thomas who persuaded Richards to adopt it. In 1877...
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  • Wells (1914). Gilchrist, R. Murray. Scarborough And Neighbourhood (1914). Gilchrist, R. Murray. Ripon and Harrogate (1914). Heath, Sidney. Bournemouth...
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    empirically analyse the first tests of the Thomas procedure in Europe. It was for this reason that Sidney Gilchrist Thomas came to Dommeldange several times during...
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  • May – Henry Brinley Richards, composer (born 1817) 1 August – Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (born 1850) 1886 31 March – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st...
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