Henry Bessemer

The collapse in the price of steel -- thanks to Henry Bessemer, the Englishman whose process allowed steel to be produced by the ton -- greatly increased the demand for iron ore and coking coal.

Inventing a New World 2009

Steel production, together with Henry Bessemer and the Bessemer converter are usually associated with the north of England, and Sheffield in particular.

Bessemer in Greenwich M 2009

His name was Frederick Walton and it is perhaps possible that he knew Henry Bessemer – another of Bessemer's interests was linoleum.

Bessemer in Greenwich M 2009

Henry Bessemer came from a French background and an ingenious inventor who took out numerous patents on all sorts of devices and processes, from which he made a lot of money.

Bessemer in Greenwich M 2009

Four years earlier the emperor, who had plans to make France “once again” great with overseas expansion and colonies and suchlike, lunched with Brit industrialist Henry Bessemer.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Four years earlier the emperor, who had plans to make France “once again” great with overseas expansion and colonies and suchlike, lunched with Brit industrialist Henry Bessemer.

American Connections James Burke 2007

The BESSEMER PROCESS (1856) for steel production, developed by Henry Bessemer, was a key step in this process, followed by the development of open hearth furnaces by William and Frederick Siemens (1864–68) in Britain and the construction of the first furnaces for continuous steel production by Benjamin Talbot in Pennsylvania (1899).

d. Spread of Modern Industrialism 2001

Henry Bessemer (1813–98) perfected the technique (Bessemer process) for converting pig iron into steel by directing an air blast upon the molten metal.

b. Materials and Construction 2001

The latest device of Henry Bessemer, if it had succeeded, would have been a great comfort to the Marquis of Lorne and other persons of weak digestion who cross the ocean.

Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money James Parton 1856

The first process for properly smelting steel was invented in 1856 by a British inventor named Henry Bessemer.

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