150 Years of Industrial HistoryThe story of Bethlehem Steel begins in the 1840s when the Lehigh Canal and the coal it carried triggered the American Industrial Revolution in the Lehigh Valley. In the 1850s, newly-constructed railroad lines like the Lehigh Valley Railroad needed durable iron rails. Robert Sayre, chief engineer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, formed the Bethlehem Iron Company in 1860 and hired John Fritz, a self-taught engineer, to construct his innovative rolling mills to make stronger rails.
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|Date Added||Monday, February 5th, 2018 at 1:05pm PST -08:00|
|UTM (WGS84 Datum)||18T E 468790 N 4496074|
|Decimal Degrees||40.61490000, -75.36895000|
|Degrees and Decimal Minutes||N 40° 36.894', W 75° 22.137'|
|Degrees, Minutes and Seconds||40° 36' 53.64" N, 75° 22' 8.22" W|
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|Area Code(s)||484, 610|
|Closest Postal Address||At or near HMT, Bethlehem PA 18015, US|
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