ABSTRACT

Can one, after all this, invent without a theory?

Without S-Field analysis, without meticulous ASIP

operations, without all this difficult science? You can.

Here is a typical example.

Steel is poured into converters, huge metal crucibles

with an inside lining (facing) made of heat-resistant brick. Every 7 to 10 days the facing burns out, works has

to stop, the converter has to cool off, the lining has to

be broken out and renewed. The idea arose of changing the

crucible of the converter altogether. But the converter

is as a high as an eight-storey house; it is too

complicated to wheel out the crucible on rollers and then

put a new one in. What can be done? The inventor V.