Henry Bessemer
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Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – March 15, 1898) was an English explorer, whose steel-making process would become the most important method for producing steel in the nineteenth century from 1856 to 1950.
He was also instrumental in the establishment of Sheffield, England, as a key industrial center, and he invented his method for blowing air through molten pig iron to remove the impurities.
Steel fabrication was made much simpler, faster, and cheaper, and structural engineering was revolutionized by this technology.
Bessemer, one of the twentieth industrial revolution's most influential designers, also produced over 100 other inventions in the fields of iron, steel, and glass.
Unlike most ingenuities, he was able to bring his own ideas to fruition and profited financially from their success.
Early inventions
Bessemer's first fortune was a line of six steam-powered bronze powder furnaces used in the production of gold paint. He investigated the bronze powder made in Nuremberg, which was the only place where it was made at the time as he wrote about it in his autobiography. He then copied and improved the product, making it capable of being made on a single production line. It was an early example of reverse engineering, in which a product is analyzed and then reproduced.
The entire procedure was kept private, with only members of his immediate family being allowed inside the factory. Nuremberg powder, which was made by hand, was sold in London for £5 12s per pound but was later reduced to half a crown £ 2 / 6, or about 1/40th. He was able to continue his other inventions because of the paint's profits.
In 1848, Bessemer invented a method for making a continuous ribbon of plate glass, but it was not commercially profitable (see his autobiography, chapter 8). He acquired expertise in designing furnaces, which would be of great use for his new steel-making process.