Excerpt from The Chemistry of Iron and Steel Making: And of Their Practical UsesTh e men who had reached this stage rapidly developed a desire for more and more scientific knowledge, each additional step increasing the desire for further progress as if increasing appetite had grown by what it fed on but in their efforts to make uch progress they suffered much discouragement from the lack of any means of obtaining direct instruction in what they directly required.What they wanted to learn, and still are craving to learn, is the why and the wherefore of the operations they are daily performing, and the nature and mode of action of the forces which effect the changes they daily witness. This is not technical education, but technological education, not the teaching by outsiders of the technos, or trade, which the workman has already learned in his shop, but the teaching of the logos, of the rationale, of that technos, or trade.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.