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
Caslon Type Foundry
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The Caslon type foundry was a type foundry in London which cast and sold metal type. It was founded by the punchcutter and typefounder William Caslon I, probably in 1720. For most of its history it wa
Painting of William Caslon, founder of the Caslon type foundry, by Francis Kyte. He holds his specimen of his types.
William Caslon's specimen sheet (dated 1734 but actually issued from 1738 onwards). Some of the types shown were not cut by Caslon, most notably the French Canon roman (probably cut by Joseph Moxon)
The Caslon family chest tomb at St Luke's, Old Street
During the late 18th century the poster began to appear, creating a new market for printing. A watercolour of a theatre shows posters outside