Bessemer, Sir Henry
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Bessemer, Sir Henry (1813–98). Bessemer distinguished himself as a professional inventor responsible for many ingenious ideas. By far his most successful invention was the process which bears his name for making steel—previously an expensive material in short supply—available in bulk. Invented in 1856, the process involved blowing air through molten cast iron so that it combined with excess carbon in the melt to produce mild steel in substantial quantities. This caused a brief but spectacular display while the reaction took place. Steel from ‘Bessemer converters’ came to be used extensively in railway lines, ship plate, and forgings for large guns. Despite the occurrence of technical problems in its early development, the process was widely adopted in iron- and steelworks in Britain and elsewhere during the following decades. The invention secured public recognition and many honours for Bessemer, including a knighthood in 1879.
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Bessemer Venture Partners Implements Carbon Footprint Reduction Plan
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 9/25/2007; 700+ words
; ...Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the...investments in 20 to 25 others. "Bessemer Venture Partners is following in the tradition of its namesake, Sir Henry Bessemer, whose inventive process dramatically...
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Bessemer Venture Partners Implements Carbon Footprint Reduction Plan.
PR Newswire; 9/25/2007; 700+ words
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Barbecue to mark 125th year of Bessemer school.
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; ...Side campus. It's now called Bessemer Academy and most of the classic...to the 1930s when the current Bessemer school building was built, but...community, which in turn honored Sir Henry Bessemer whose namesake furnaces towered...
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Armco leader in development of open hearth steel
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Nerves of steel were required...(Gazette Letters)
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LETTER: A happy anniversary.(Letter to the editor)
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I just don't have the energy to keeping riding this heat wave
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TRIBUTE TO FAMOUS ANCESTOR.
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/17/1994; 684 words
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Sir Henry Bessemer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir Henry Bessemer The English inventor Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-1898...on March 15, 1898. Further Reading The major work on Bessemer is his autobiography, Sir Henry Bessemer: An Autobiography (1905). W. H. Chaloner, People...
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Bessemer, Sir Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Bessemer, Sir Henry (1813–98). Bessemer distinguished himself as a professional inventor responsible...display while the reaction took place. Steel from ‘Bessemer converters’ came to be used extensively in railway...
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Bessemer process
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bessemer process bĕs´emer [for Sir Henry Bessemer ], industrial process for the manufacture of steel...process is carried on in a large container called the Bessemer converter, which is made of steel and has a lining...
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Bessemer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bessemer bĕs´emer , city (1990 pop. 33,497...a mining town in a mineral-rich area, it was named after Sir Henry Bessemer , inventor of the Bessemer process for manufacturing steel, and had significant iron...
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