Bessemer converter
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Bessemer converter
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Soon after the fire alarm had sounded. the port side of the ship was like the inside of a Bessemer converter.
From Time Magazine Archive
She picks only top-chop idols, and her devotional fires resemble a Bessemer converter.
From Time Magazine Archive
The electric currents of Berzelius and Oersted, the crucible of Wohler, the closed furnaces and the hydrogen gas of the French manufacturers and the Bessemer converter apparatus of Thompson, all indicate one direction.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
From where I stood, I could see the Bessemer converter pouring a fluid rope of white light; I knew it for a stream the thickness of a hydrant.
From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford
By treatment in a Bessemer converter, cast iron is changed into steel.
From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by James, Juliet Helena Lumbard
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