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Sir Henry Bessemer FRS (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years.
Bessemer converter, schematic diagram. The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. The key principle is removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation with air being blown through the molten iron. The oxidation also ...
Henry Bessemer (1813–1898) Invented Bessemer process for manufacturing steel: Independent inventor Gordon Beveridge (1933–1999) Former president and vice-chancellor of Queen's University of Belfast: Queen's University of Belfast: Lois Aileen Bey (born 1929) First woman to graduate in chemical engineering from IIT: Illinois Institute of ...
Sign advertising Charlton as Henry Bessemer's birthplace. Charlton House is a Grade II listed building and the birthplace of inventor Henry Bessemer in 1813. [2] At the time his father, Anthony Bessemer, operated a type foundry in the village. [3] [4] The mill-wheel was adapted by his grandfather to power a small foundry.
This article is intended only to address the business, economic and social dimensions of the industry, since the bulk production of steel began as a result of Henry Bessemer's development of the Bessemer converter, in 1857. Previously, steel was very expensive to produce, and was only used in small, expensive items, such as knives, swords and ...
Anthony Bessemer. Anthony Bessemer (1766 [1] –1836 [2] or after 1840 [3]) was a British industrialist and punchcutter, who spent large portions of his life in the Netherlands and France before returning to live in London and Hertfordshire. His son was Sir Henry Bessemer, the inventor of the Bessemer process for steel manufacture. [4] [5] [6 ...
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A similar process was discovered independently by Henry Bessemer and patented in 1855. Due to a financial panic in 1857, a company that had already licensed the Bessemer process was able to purchase Kelly's patents, and licensed both under a single scheme using the Bessemer name. Kelly's role in the invention of the process is much less known.