As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...

The steel industry has undergone numerous transformations over the centuries, but few innovations have had as profound an impact as the Bessemer Process. Developed in the mid-19th century, this ...

Horldt, Henry Bessemer, December 18, 2022, age 97. Loving husband of the late Barbara J. for 60 years. Dear mother of Barbara “Bonny” Montanari (Mark), Mary Poulin (John), and Trisha Murray.

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Hidden away in the October 17, 1856 edition of The Engineer, is the claim that Henry Bessemer was not the true inventor of the Bessemer Process. 2023 marks the 125 th anniversary of the death of great ...

Skyscrapers have come a long way. Sir Henry Bessemer patents an affordable method of mass-producing steel: blowing oxygen through molten pig iron to remove impurities. The innovation changes ...

It was no hardship at all to Miss R.E.M. Bessemer, the lean, sixtyish granddaughter of famed Steelman-Inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, whose family home is within a stone’s throw of the Bluebell and ...