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Using Bessemer equipment, Goransson began trials of the process in November 1857 and by October 1858 was able to report: "Our firm has now entirely given up the manufacture of bar iron, and our blast furnaces and tilt mills are now wholly employed in making steel by the Bessemer process, which may, therefore, be now considered an accomplished commercial fact."
All that I could say would be mere talk and I felt that action was necessary, and not words." Bessemer, op. cit. Ibid., p. 171. Action took the form of continued experiments and, by the end of 1857, a decision to build his own plant at Sheffield. An important collateral development resulted from the visit to London in May 1857 of G. F. Goransson of Gefle, Sweden.
Mining Journal, 1858, vol. 28, p. 696. Goransson was later to claim considerable improvements on the method of introducing the blast, and, in consequence, the first effective demonstration of the Bessemer method this at a time when Bessemer was still remelting the product of his converter in crucibles, after granulating the steel in water.
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