Bessemer

[ bes-uh-mer ]

noun
  1. Sir Henry, 1813–98, English engineer: inventor of the Bessemer process.

  2. a city in central Alabama.

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  • Bessemer claimed that his steel rails would last much longer than the common iron rail then in use.

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