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Fire and Forge - A Desert Railroad, a Wonder Metal, and the Making of an Aerospace Blacksmith (Hardcover)
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Fire and Forge - A Desert Railroad, a Wonder Metal, and the Making of an Aerospace Blacksmith (Hardcover)
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Harry Rosenberg grew up near the hottest place on Earth-Death
Valley-in a very unusual dwelling: a red caboose. His father
repaired bridges for the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad, which
hauled ore from remote mines. During the Depression, the Rosenbergs
traveled from washout to washout across a fiery land prone,
paradoxically, to devastating floods of the Amargosa and Mojave
Rivers. No other place on Earth was better suited to forge a
curious boy into a metallurgist who would spend his life unlocking
the vast potential of a difficult, new metal-titanium. In Fire and
Forge, author Kathleen L. Housley tells Rosenberg's life
story-working as a miner, having a chance meeting with a geologist
studying Death Valley, earning a PhD from Stanford, gaining patents
for aerospace alloys, and founding a company that manufactures the
purest titanium in the world. This biography captures the essence
of a man whose work as a metallurgist left an impact on the world,
but it also communicates Rosenberg's love for his roots. No matter
how far he traveled, no matter the number of his successes, he
never really left the Mojave Desert and the Amargosa River-it still
flows through his veins.
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