Technology underpinned British Empire, from tentative start in 7th century to global dominance in 18th and 19th centuries and ...

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 ...

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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 ...