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McKenna Process Company - opening page

Stock certificates - McKenna Process Company
      American McKenna Process Company Agreements for Certificates No's 01 to 09
      American McKenna Process Company Stock Certificates
      McKenna Process Company Stock Certificate No. 10
      McKenna Process Company Trustees Stock Certifificate
      McKenna Steel Working Company Stock Certificate

Rail patents
      McKenna Patent Announcement
      Edward W. McKenna Rail Patents
              US Patent No. 522,228                                                     
                  US Patent No. 635,577
      George Langford Rail Patents - master list (updated and expanded 9/3/2005)
              US Patent No. 1,212,364 - comparison to re-rolling practice
              US Patent No. 1,314,877 - comparison to a McKenna machine                                 
                 US Patent No. 1,890,687                                          
                 US Patent No. 2,034,046                                          

History of the McKenna Company
      The Metallurgy of Steel
      English Mckenna Process Company 1904-05
      Voyage on the RMS BALTIC from Liverpool back to New York August 9-17, 1905
      The McKenna Company
      Employees 1916-1918
      Splice Bar Reforming Procedure - 1929
      Splice Bar Sections
      The McKenna Company's Rise & Fall, by George Langford, Jr.

Present-day state of the Joliet neighborhood
      Curtiss J-1 Biplane overflight 1917
      Bates Machine Company Building April, 2005
      McKenna Yard April, 2005

George Langford, Sr.'s activities
     Autobiographical Outline
      Fifty Years Ago
      Sitting Bull Recollections
      Yale Rowing ... Yale's participation against the Leander Boat Club in the Henley Regatta, 1896
      How Mr. Langford was hurt
      Adult Portraits I                                             
      Adult Portraits II
      Nathaniel Pitt Langford - 1832-1910
      Minooka Mastodons 1919
      Bas Relief Sculptures
      Earwitness to the St. Valentines Day massacre
      Anthropology 1924-1930
      Visit to Denver, Colorado - 1932
      Historic Sites in Illinois
      Genealogy
      George & Sydney Langford - Life Partnership
      His Biography, by George Langford, Jr.

The McKenna Processes and Mill - Picture Book 
      1. Rail rerolling plant viewed from the southeast
      2. Continuation (right side) of the preceding picture   
                Composite of Images 1 & 2
      3. Unloading old rails with locomotive crane and magnet
      4. Rail unloading and storage yard viewed from the east
      5. Grading old rails for rerolling
      6. Grading old rails for rerolling, continued
      7. West end of Rolling Mill showing furnace chimneys and waste heat boiler
      8. Charging rails into the furnace
      9.Drawing Rail from Furnace      
      10.Hot Rail Entering Rolls
      11.Hot Rail Receiving First Pass
      12.LeadingRolls [being turned up in a lathe]
      13.Hot Sawing
      14.Hot Rails Undergoing Controlled Cooling
      15.Cold Rails Ready for Straightening & Drilling
      16.Cold Straightening with Press & Gag
      17.Cold Straightening with Press & Hammer Face
      18.Drilling New Bolt Holes
      19.Inspecting Rerolled Rails
      20.Inspected Rails & Roller Conveyor 
      21.Loading Yard from the West
      22.Closeup - Worn Splice Bars
      23. & ff - Splice Bar Re-Forming

The Railway Age article (March 1900 - reprinted March 2000)
     View of the West End of the Rolling Mill
      Men Working (detail of first image)