Bessemer

[ bes-uh-mer ]

/ ˈbɛs ə mər /

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

a city in central Alabama.

QUIZZES

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!

Question 1 of 7

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It must have taken no small amount of courage to then present himself in Bessemer the following night.
Charles Portis, a Journalist With True Grit|Jay Jennings|September 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Bessemer, with his steel-mines, as his furnaces at the ore-bank may be termed, was then in the future.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876|Various
This hook is to be made out of soft Bessemer steel, which of course is very different from high carbon steel.
The Library of Work and Play: Working in Metals|Charles Conrad Sleffel
A Bessemer converter is actually a big retort with air holes at the bottom where molten iron is purified into steel with air.
United States Steel|Arundel Cotter

By mid-1861, on the other hand, Bessemer was beginning to meet with increasing respect from the trade.
The Beginnings of Cheap Steel|Philip W. Bishop
The Bessemer process makes enormous masses of steel and makes it very cheaply; but it has one fault—it is too quick.
Diggers in the Earth|Eva March Tappan