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Bessemer (bĕs`əmər), city (1990 pop. 33,497), Jefferson co., N central Ala.; inc. 1887. Founded as a mining town in a mineral-rich area, it was named after Sir Henry Bessemer Bessemer, Sir Henry (bĕs`əmər), English engineer and inventor, b. Charleton, Hertfordshire. ..... Click the link for more information. , inventor of the Bessemer process Bessemer process (bĕs`əmər) [for Sir Henry Bessemer ], industrial process for the manufacture of steel from molten pig iron. ..... Click the link for more information. for manufacturing steel, and had significant iron and steel industries. There is metal fabrication and the manufacture of construction and railroad equipment and foundry products. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| So, one of the teams wore chain-mail ulsters, and the other wore plate- armor made of my new Bessemer steel. Just as the click of the reaper means bread, and the purr of the sewing-machine means clothes, and the roar of the Bessemer converter means steel, and the rattle of the press means education, so the ring of the telephone bell has come to mean unity and organization. He was taken to the Bessemer furnace, where they made billets of steel--a domelike building, the size of a big theater. |
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