Henry Bessemer
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Sir Henry Bessemer was an English inventor, whose steel-making process was the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years. He played a significant
Bessemer c. 1890s
Bessemer converter
Bessemer converter, Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield, England in 2010
Captioned "Steel", caricature of Bessemer by Leslie Ward in Vanity Fair, 6 November 1880
Bessemer process
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The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. The key principle is removal
Henry Bessemer
…Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steel-making process was the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years. He played a significant role in establishing…
Bessemer converter, schematic diagram
Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was one of the world's largest manufacturers of steel before its 2003 closure.
William Kelly is credited with experimenting with a similar process before Bessemer's patent.