[PAR35]

So Joseph Smith was designing high rise glass and steel high rises in the 1830s?

[Elsie]

So Joseph Smith was designing high rise glass and steel high rises in the 1830s?

In the early 1850s, the American inventor William Kelly experimented with a method similar to the Bessemer process. Wagner writes that Kelly may have been inspired by techniques introduced by Chinese ironworkers hired by Kelly in 1854.^{[4]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_process#The_Bessemer_Process_in_the_United_States}

 

 

 

^{Well; Joseph Smith learned about STEEL while 'translating' the Book of Mormon; so...}

Steel is mentioned five times in the Book of Mormon:  Ether 7.9,  Jarom 1.8,  1 Nephi 4.9, 1  Nephi 16.18,  2 Nephi 5.15