Sir Henry Bessemer, F. R. S. An autobiography

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Sir Henry Bessemer, F. R. S. An autobiography
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1905
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Sir Henry Bessemer, F. R. S. An autobiography

Author: Bessemer, Henry, Sir, 1813-1898

Year: 1905

Preface.--Early days.--The reward of invention.--Compressing plumbago dust, casting type, type-composing machine, etc.--Utrecht velvet.--The manufacture of bronze powder.--Improvements in sugar manufacture.--A holiday in Germany.--Improvements in glass manufacture.--The exhibition of 1851.--Early gunnery experiments.--The genesis of the Bessemer process.--The Bessemer process.--Bessemer steel and Colonel Eardley Wilmot.--The Bessemer process and the War office.--Bessemer steel: the Armstrong controversy.--Bessemer steel guns.--Cast steel for shipbuilding.--Manganese in steel-making.--Ebbw Vale.--The Bessemer saloon steam-ship.--Conclusion

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