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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...
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    Japanese. The modern process is named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856. The process was said...
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    Reconstruction Era by the Bessemer Land and Improvement Company, named after Henry Bessemer and owned by coal magnate Henry F. DeBardeleben. He had inherited...
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    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...
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    concept devised by the engineer and inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, intended to combat seasickness. Bessemer, a severe seasickness sufferer, devised in 1868...
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    in the world. In 1907, Henry Phipps Jr. (1839–1930), of the Phipps family that still owns and directs the firm, started Bessemer Trust as a family office...
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    1911, Henry Phipps Jr., a co-founder of Carnegie Steel, formed Bessemer Trust in New York to manage his family's assets. In 1911, he spun out Bessemer Securities...
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  • Anthony Bessemer (1758–1836 or after 1840), British engineer and industrialist Auriel Bessemer (1909–1986), American painter Henry Bessemer, (1813–1898)...
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    some contemporaries described as a new "Iron Age". In the late 1850s Henry Bessemer invented a new steelmaking process which involved blowing air through...
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    for England. Hertfordshire Archives – Charlton Manor Bessemer, Henry (1905). Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: an autobiography; with a concluding chapter....
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    Bessemer is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 1,805. It is the county seat of Gogebic County. The city...
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    In England, pencils continued to be made from whole sawn graphite. Henry Bessemer's first successful invention (1838) was a method of compressing graphite...
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    of steel produced by the Bessemer process to withstand rolling and forging at elevated temperatures." In 1860, Henry Bessemer invented the use of ferromanganese...
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  • Bessemer, Colorado was a city in Colorado that was incorporated in 1886. The community was named after Henry Bessemer, an English inventor. It was one...
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    (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...
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    dramatically and so did the size of blast furnaces. The Bessemer process, invented by Sir Henry Bessemer, allowed the mass-production of steel, increasing the...
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    cast). Aluminium and copper are also continuously cast. Sir Henry Bessemer, of Bessemer converter fame, received a patent in 1857 for casting metal between...
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  • 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...
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    advances in automating glass manufacturing were patented in 1848 by Henry Bessemer. His system produced a continuous ribbon of flat glass by forming the...
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    the raw material of manganese steel." In 1860, Sir Henry Bessemer, trying to perfect his Bessemer process of steel making, found that adding spiegeleisen...
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    for machine guns by Henry Bessemer, along with a water cleaning system, though he later abandoned this design. In his patent, Bessemer describes a hydropneumatic...
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    was 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...
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    those cylinders. Continuous plate production was invented in 1848 by Henry Bessemer, who drew a ribbon of glass through rollers. This standardized the thickness...
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    keep taut, and was expensive to use. In England, in 1855, Henry Bessemer patented the Bessemer process that led to the mass production of low-cost high-quality...
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    devised and these were later applied to produce steel. In the late 1850s, Henry Bessemer invented a new steelmaking process, involving blowing air through molten...
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  • In 1854 a hydropneumatically delayed-blowback cannon was patented by Henry Bessemer. In 1856 a crank-operated cannon with a blowback-operated cocking mechanism...
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    1858, Henry Bessemer developed a process of steel-making by blowing hot air through liquid pig iron to reduce the carbon content. The Bessemer process...
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    had not yet recovered from the destruction of World War II. In 1856, Henry Bessemer had patented a steelmaking process involving oxygen blowing for decarbonizing...
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    Thereon (1865) to Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort. Inventors and Inventions(1867) begins with a dedication to Henry Bessemer. A Biographical Memoir...
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    19th-century iron furnaces in the US In 1856, Englishman Henry Bessemer invented the Bessemer process, which allowed for mass production of steel from...
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