Henry Bessemer
1813–98
Engineer. Inventor of the Bessemer steel-manufacturing process of melting pig iron using air pressure or steam to abstract carbon.
Source
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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