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W. M. Lord has said with regard to this success that "Sir Henry Bessemer was somewhat exceptional. He had developed his process from an idea to a practical reality in his own lifetime and he was sufficiently of a businessman to have profited by it. In so many cases, inventions were not developed
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designed to stay level, however rough the sea, to save her passengers from seasickness. The mechanism – hydraulics controlled by a steersman watching a spirit level – worked in model form and in a trial version built in his garden in Denmark Hill, London. However, it never received a proper seagoing
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had been working on a similar idea for some time prior to this. A reluctant patentor, and in this instance still working through some problems in his method, Nasmyth abandoned the project after hearing Bessemer at the meeting. Bessemer acknowledged the efforts of Nasmyth by offering him a one-third
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However Mushet received nothing and by 1866 was destitute and in ill health. In that year his 16-year-old daughter, Mary, travelled to London alone, to confront Bessemer at his offices, arguing that his success was based on the results of her father's work. Bessemer decided to pay Mushet an annual
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Bessemer was a prolific inventor and held at least 129 patents, spanning from 1838 to 1883. These included military ordnance, movable dies for embossed postage stamps, a screw extruder to extract sugar from sugar cane, and others in the fields of iron, steel and glass. These are described in some
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That a man who did so much for industrial development did not receive higher recognition from his own government was a source of deep regret for English engineers, who alluded to the fact that in the United States, where the Bessemer process found much use, eight cities or towns bore his name.
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Bessemer had been trying to reduce the cost of steel-making for military ordnance, and developed his system for blowing air through molten pig iron to remove the impurities. This made steel easier, quicker and cheaper to manufacture, and revolutionised structural engineering. One of the most
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alone. Examples include railway structures such as bridges and tracks, where the treacherous nature of cast iron was keenly felt by many engineers and designers. There had been many accidents when cast iron beams collapsed suddenly, such as the
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Though this process is no longer commercially used, at the time of its invention it was of enormous industrial importance because it lowered the cost of production steel, leading to steel being widely substituted for
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when he was about 21 years old. He was an inventor who, while engaged by the Paris Mint, made a machine for making medallions that could produce steel dies from a larger model. He became a member of the
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When Bessemer tried to induce makers to take up his improved system, he met with general rebuffs and was eventually driven to undertake the exploitation of the process himself. He erected steelworks in
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which was the only place where it was made at the time. He then copied and improved the product and made it capable of being made on a simple production line. It was an early example of
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is also named in his honour. In 2009, the public house "The Fountain" in Sheffield city centre was renamed "The Bessemer" in homage to Henry Bessemer, who had a huge impact on the
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The process was kept secret, with only members of his immediate family having access to the factory. The Nuremberg powder, which was made by hand, retailed in London for £5 12
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in 1848, but it was not commercially successful (, chapter 8). He gained experience in designing furnaces, which was to be of great use for his new steel-making process.
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under his tenure. IOM3 still recognises Bessemer's legacy with an annual award of the medal for outstanding services to the steel industry; recent recipients include
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pension of £300, a very considerable sum, which he paid for over 20 years, possibly with a view to keeping the Mushets from legal action. Bessemer also had works in
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of that country, was the first to make good steel by the process, but only after many attempts. His results prompted Bessemer to try a purer iron obtained from
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test as, when the ship demolished part of the Calais pier on her maiden voyage, investor confidence was lost and the ship was scrapped.
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Bessemer also obtained a patent in 1857 for the casting of metal between contrarotating rollers – a forerunner of today's
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processes and remarkably, Bessemer's original idea has been implemented in the direct continuous casting of steel strip.
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in Cheltenham which he titled "The Manufacture of Malleable Iron and Steel without Fuel." It was published in full in
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in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years. He also played a significant role in establishing the town of
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The invention from which Bessemer made his first fortune was a series of six steam-powered machines for making
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involved using oxygen in air blown through molten pig iron to burn off the impurities and thus create steel.
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who the following December became infamous worldwide as the designer and railway engineer of the Tay Bridge.
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The Chartered Mechanical Engineer: The Journal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Volume 12
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for his contribution to science on 26 June 1879, and in the same year was made a fellow of the
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Lord, W. M. (1945). "The Development of the Bessemer Process in Lancashire, 1856–1900".
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for his contribution to science in 1879, and in the same year was made a fellow of the
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structures. Wrought iron structures were much more reliable with very few failures.
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share of the value of his patent. Nasmyth turned it down as he was about to retire.
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of 1879, and failures continued until all cast iron under-bridges were replaced by
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Newton, David E. Chemistry of New Materials. New York: Facts on File, 2007. Print.
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Coincidentally, on the same page of the London Gazette there is the knighting of
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for ordnance production from 1850 to 1855 when he patented his method. However,
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On 24 August 1856 Bessemer first described the process to a meeting of the
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Many industries were constrained by the lack of steel, being reliant on
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Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: an autobiography; with a concluding chapter
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in 1894. In 1895, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the
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quickly and the plums went to other persons than the inventors."
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Bessemer patented a method for making a continuous ribbon of
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in 1857, effectively nullifying Bessemer's 1855 US patent.
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Henry Bessemer worked on the problem of manufacturing cheap
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Man of Iron, Man of Steel: Lives of David and Robert Mushet
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IESIS Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
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A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America: 1865-1925
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After suffering from seasickness in 1868, he designed the
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in 1891. He was elected an International Member of the
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Headstone of Sir Henry Bessemer, West Norwood cemetery
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Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
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Bessemer licensed the patent for his process to five
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would become the most important technique for making
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An introduction to the metallurgy of iron and steel
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Sir Henry Bessemer
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Anthony
Huguenot
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French Academy of Science
French Revolution
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punchcutter
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