Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Bessemerwas an English inventor, whose steelmaking process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century. He also established the town of Sheffield as a major industrial centre...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth19 January 1813
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The ground for the factory having been chosen, and a long lease of the premises obtained, I had next to plan the necessary buildings.
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The ordinary bronze powder is, as before mentioned, made from an exceedingly thin leaf of beaten metal, resembling an ordinary leaf of gold.
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I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
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In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.
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On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.