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Bessemer   /bˈɛsəmər/   Listen
Bessemer

noun
1.
British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898).  Synonym: Sir Henry Bessemer.



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"Bessemer" Quotes from Famous Books



... control the whole available supply could not long be successful. But it is one of the peculiarities of modern industry that by its specialization it furnishes constant opportunities for the establishment of new forms of monopoly, whose power is not generally understood. In the manufacture of Bessemer steel, which has now largely displaced wrought iron in the arts, it is necessary to use an iron ore of peculiar chemical composition. This ore is found most abundantly and of best quality in the mines of the Vermilion range, lying about one hundred ...
— Monopolies and the People • Charles Whiting Baker

... in the shade," he reasoned silently. "That's hot any way you take it. But taking it in the face at forty-five an hour is too much like looking into a Bessemer converter!" ...
— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin

... of the Lobster Club. That means good trade here, with this new peach in the crate. These old ginks are hard as Bessemer armor-plate in business, but oh, how soft the tumble for a ...
— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball



Words linked to "Bessemer" :   discoverer, Bessemer process, Sir Henry Bessemer, metallurgist, artificer, metallurgical engineer, inventor



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