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Henry Bessemer

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I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.


— Henry Bessemer


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I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.


— Henry Bessemer


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I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.


— Henry Bessemer


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On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.


— Henry Bessemer


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The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.


— Henry Bessemer


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We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.


— Henry Bessemer


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The problem recurred at the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879 and failures continued until all cast iron under-bridges were replaced by steel structures. Anthony Bessemer
Bessemer's father Anthony was born in London but moved to Paris when he was 21 years old. Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English engineer inventor and businessman.

Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English engineer inventor and businessman. Bessemer's name is chiefly known in connection with the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel.

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