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Henry Bessemer, English engineer and inventor, 1881. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
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Title: Henry Bessemer, English engineer and inventor, 1881. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Caption: Henry Bessemer, English engineer and inventor, 1881. Born at Charlton, near Hitchen, Hertfordshire, Bessemer (1813-1893) took out many patents but is best remembered for his invention of the Bessemer process, patented in 1855, for more cheaply producing steel from pig iron in a Bessemer converter. He established a steelworks which utilised the process at Sheffield in 1859. Bessemer was knighted in 1859 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society the same year. From Men of Mark by Thompson Cooper. (London, 1881).
Credit: Album / Oxford Science Archive / Heritage Images
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Image size: 3788 × 4610 px | 50.0 MB
Print size: 32.1 × 39.0 cm | 1491.3 × 1815.0 in (300 dpi)
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