Bessemer
Sir Henry, 1813–98, English engineer: inventor of the Bessemer process.
a city in central Alabama.
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It must have taken no small amount of courage to then present himself in Bessemer the following night.
So, one of the teams wore chain-mail ulsters, and the other wore plate-armor made of my new Bessemer steel.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)He was decided to be the first inventor of the process, and a patent was granted him over Bessemer, who was a few days before him.
Steam Steel and Electricity | James W. SteeleAnother achievement of far-reaching consequences was Captain Henry Bessemer's process for manufacturing steel.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin EmersonWhat is almost as remarkable as the enormous increase in the production of Bessemer steel is the great diminution in its cost.
Bessemer claimed that his steel rails would last much longer than the common iron rail then in use.
The Harris-Ingram Experiment | Charles E. Bolton
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