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WE regret to announce the death of Mr. E. WINDSOR RICHARDS, on Saturday, November 12, at ninety years of age. Mr. Richards started his career at the age of twenty-three as an assistant engineer with his brother at Tredegar Iron Works, thus beginning a connection with the iron and steel industry which he maintained throughout his life-While still a young man, he was appointed chief engineer at the Ebbw Vale Steel Works, where he designed and constructed a special blast furnace for the production from Somerset spathic ore of spiegeleisen, which until that time had been imported from Germany. In 1876 Mr. Richards, became general manager, and later chairman and director, of Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., of Middlesbrough, where, in co-operation with Thomas, the basic method of steel manufacture was successfully launched. In recognition of his services to the iron and steel industry, Mr. Richards was awarded in 1884 the Bessemer gold medal of the Iron and Steel Institute, of which ten years later he became president. He was also a past-president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 108, 379 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108379c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/108379c0