The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the...

Sir Henry Bessemer FRS (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique...

nineteenth century to overcome this difficulty. Compared with the Bessemer process, which it displaced, its main advantages were that it did not embrittle...

in the 1850s and 1860s, using the Bessemer and Siemens-Martin processes. Currently, two major commercial processes are used. Basic oxygen steelmaking...

(276 m) above sea level. Bessemer City is named for Sir Henry Bessemer who created the Bessemer process for smelting iron. Bessemer City was founded on land...

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...

followed by the Bessemer process in England in the mid-19th century, and then by the open-hearth furnace. With the invention of the Bessemer process, a new era...

The Gilchrist–Thomas process or Thomas process is a historical process for refining pig iron, derived from the Bessemer converter. It is named after its...

from the destruction of World War II. In 1856, Henry Bessemer had patented a steelmaking process involving oxygen blowing for decarbonizing molten iron...

metallurgy improved the quality of mild steel, and as the Bessemer process and the Siemens–Martin process made steel much cheaper to produce, the use of wrought...

industrialist Pierre Manhès and his engineer Paul David [fr]. Inspired by the Bessemer process, it consists of the use of a converter to oxidise with air the undesirable...

manufacturing interchangeable parts, as well as the invention of the Bessemer process and open hearth furnace to produce steel, later developments heralded...

improvements became the Heaton process. Another English metallurgist, Henry Bessemer had just created the Bessemer process of blowing air or pure oxygen...

Bessemer may refer to: Bessemer, Ontario Bessemer, Alabama Bessemer Airport Bessemer Civic Center Bessemer, Colorado Bessemer, Michigan Bessemer City,...

Bessemer process. The vessel used was called the Bessemer converter. Modern steel mills use basic oxygen process converters. The converting process occurs...

the mid 20th century, steel was produced in the Bessemer process, where air was forced into Bessemer converters converting the pig iron into steel. By...

the US switched from charcoal to coal in ore smelting, adopted the Bessemer process, and saw the rise of very large integrated steel mills. In the 20th...

steelmaking Bessemer process Blast furnace – produced cast iron Catalan forge, open hearth furnace, bloomery – produced wrought iron Cementation process Crucible...

formerly used. The Gilchrist-Thomas process (or basic Bessemer process) was an improvement to the Bessemer process, made by lining the converter with a...

the invention of the Bessemer process, converters became widespread, and the appellation steelworks replaced ironworks. The processes carried at ironworks...

than direct conversion from cast iron as in puddling or the later Bessemer process. The ability to fully melt the steel removed any inhomogeneities in...

family members between New York and Florida." The Bessemer name was a reference to a steel-making process that had helped enrich the Phippses. In 1974, the...

1860s. It was established to exploit the recent introduction of the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel. Lancashire, an English county, had a...

(now called Sandvik AB) and was the first person to implement the Bessemer process successfully on an industrial scale and pioneered ingot steel in the...

(notably the Bessemer process) and acquired many mines in Germany and France. Initially, Krupp failed to gain profit from the Bessemer process due to the...

industry during the Industrial Revolution including updates to both the Bessemer Process and coal washing machinery while also leading the use of steel in arms...

mask are invented. 1852: The first successful blimp is invented 1855: Bessemer process enables steel to be mass-produced. 1856: World's first oil refinery...

described as a new "Iron Age". In the late 1850s Henry Bessemer invented a new steelmaking process which involved blowing air through molten pig-iron to...

composition controlled. Earlier processes for this included the finery forge, the puddling furnace, the Bessemer process, and the open hearth furnace. Modern...

Sir Henry Bessemer, the inventor of the Bessemer process for steel manufacture. Born in 1766 at No. 6 Old Broad Street in London, Bessemer moved to the...