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Robert Forsythe
1869 - 1907
Robert Forsythe (September 5, 1869 – May 23, 1907) was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard in 1894 and spent three years as Instructor in Metallurgy at Harvard. Afterwards he worked at the Open Hearth and Blast Furnace Departments of the Pennsylvania Steel Company and the Tidewater Steel Company.
Excerpted from Forsythe, Robert "The Blast Furnace and the Manufacture of Pig Iron, Introduction" David Williams Co. 1908, Internet Archive, https://archive.org/stream/blastfurnaceandt004219mbp#page/n5/mode/2up (accessed 09/24/2014)