Inventor Name
Wood, Fredrick William
Repository
Hagley Museum & Library
Manuscripts & Archives Department
P.O. Box 3630
Wilmington, DE 19807-0630
302-658-2400
https://www.hagley.org/research
Physical Description
13.25 linear ft.
Summary
Frederick William Wood was an executive and engineer in the steel and shipbuilding industries. After graduating from MIT in 1877, he went to work for the Pennsylvania Steel Co. Wood ultimately became president of the Maryland Steel Company in 1891. The papers of Wood constitute a major source on the history of the American steel industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The papers are primarily official records of the various companies with which Wood was associated. The largest portion of the records deals with the Sparrows Point Plant when it was operated by Maryland Steel Company. The records give considerable information on Wood’s technical contributions, inlcuding patents for mill improvements, notebooks covering production and tests and descriptions of the organization of work
