In No. 430 of this Journal, page 207, there is some mention of the
patented rolling process for tapering bar-iron by machinery. This
important invention is not of American origin, as persons unacquainted
with the facts might imagine: it was first practised at the Mersey
Steel and Iron Company's works at Liverpool, and then patented by Mr
William Clay in the United States. The Company mentioned were awarded
for the manufacture the prize-medal of the Great Exhibition, and the
silver medals of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, and the
American Institute of New York.
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