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    Sir Henry Bessemer FRS (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique...
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    Japanese. The modern process is named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856. The process was said...
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    Reconstruction Era by the Bessemer Land and Improvement Company, named after Henry Bessemer and owned by coal magnate Henry F. DeBardeleben. He had inherited...
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    independently by Henry Bessemer and patented in 1855. Due to a financial panic in 1857, a company that had already licensed the Bessemer process was able...
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    concept devised by the engineer and inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, intended to combat seasickness. Bessemer, a severe seasickness sufferer, devised in 1868...
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    in the world. In 1907, Henry Phipps Jr. (1839–1930), of the Phipps family that still owns and directs the firm, started Bessemer Trust as a family office...
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    1911, Henry Phipps Jr., a co-founder of Carnegie Steel, formed Bessemer Trust in New York to manage his family's assets. In 1911, he spun out Bessemer Securities...
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  • Anthony Bessemer (1758–1836 or after 1840), British engineer and industrialist Auriel Bessemer (1909–1986), American painter Henry Bessemer, (1813–1898)...
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    some contemporaries described as a new "Iron Age". In the late 1850s Henry Bessemer invented a new steelmaking process which involved blowing air through...
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    for England. Hertfordshire Archives – Charlton Manor Bessemer, Henry (1905). Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: an autobiography; with a concluding chapter....
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