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Bessemer brought the subject of his invention before the meeting of the British Association at Cheltenham in the autumn of 1856. Did you ever hear of such nonsense?"
His experience must have directly contributed to his conception of his steel process not as a metallurgical trick but as an industrial process; for when the time came, Bessemer patented his discovery as a process rather than as a formula. Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S., an autobiography, London, 1905, p. 332. Ibid., p. 59 ff.
Thus, in the manufacture of iron by what is called the Bessemer process, it has been found very convenient to judge as to the state of the molten metal by such an analysis of the flame which comes forth from it. No sooner was the spectroscope invented than astronomers hastened by its aid to explore the chemical constitution of the sun.
There are strong grounds then, for agreeing with one historian who concludes: The fact that Kelly was an American is evidently the principal reason why certain popular writers have made much of an invention that, had not Bessemer developed his process, would never have attracted notice.
The necessity for a reappraisal arises from the fact that today's references to the origin of Bessemer steel often contain chronological and other inaccuracies arising in many cases from a dependence on secondary and sometimes unreliable sources.
The Ebbw Vale Iron Works had spent £7,000 trying to carry out the Martien process and it was unlikely that they would have allowed Bessemer to infringe upon that patent if they had any grounds for a case. Bessemer was not imitating Mushet.
As the visitor was shown to the elevator, the clerk turned to his assistant with a nudge. "There's the easiest spender 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 new shade of peroxide." "Mr.
A Solid-bar "Link-Valve Motion," especially valuable for the larger class of Marine Steam-Engines. Steam Puddling Patent. This was the "pioneer" of the Bessemer process. See Bessemer correspondence, p. 354 A Reversible Rolling Mill without Fly-wheel.
During its time 1,250,000 trains, not to speak of the detached engines, etc., had passed over it. This was the first steel rail, now called Bessemer rail, ever used. About ten years ago the Cambria Iron Company arranged with Dr.
An Edison or a Bessemer may have produced whatever income has come to him in his latest years from the inventive efforts of his earliest; but if such a man has a son to whom this income descends a half-witted degenerate who squanders it on wine and women, who will not work with his hands and who cannot work with his head no one can pretend that, in any sense of the word, a fool like this produces any fraction of the thousands that he consumes.
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