March 15, 1898 (February 23), Reform Movement, the British metallurgist Henry Bessemer's death. the death of Henry Bessemer




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Bessemer (1813 to 1898), one of the inventors of the BOF steelmaking process, the British inventor. since childhood to work in his father run casting workshop, the familiar metal processing and manufacturing; mechanical design after studying in London. Bessemer's first invention is a cast metal crafts and technology, and has improved the printing press with mold and paint the golden generation of copper powder. 1850s, he noted that in with iron melting furnace blast equipment, air can remove the carbon in the molten iron smelting wrought iron or low carbon steel, so the duct blowing Bessemer method of hot metal in the crucible, (lsjt.net) developed into a Bessemer converter steelmaking, patented in 1856. marks the birth of the "Iron Age" of the early Industrial Revolution to the steel era " evolution of this epoch-making significance in the history of metallurgy development. Bessemer former Chairman of the British Iron and Steel Institute, was elected as a member of the Royal Society in 1879. March 15, 1898, the death of Henry Bessemer.
Bessemer in Bessemer converter structure diagram
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