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Seamless Tube Industry

Lawrence County · dedicated 1994 · SE corner of PA 351 (Lawrence Ave.) at 7th St., Ellwood City

A block away was the plant in which Ralph C. Stiefel, the Swiss-born engineer, invented the rotary piercing process for making steel tubing, 1895. He helped found Ellwood Weldless Tube Co., which became a nucleus for National Tube Div. of U.S. Steel.

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Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov

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