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Bessemer announces his steelmaking process

Invention, 1856, United Kingdom.

What happened

Henry Bessemer delivered his paper On the Manufacture of Iron and Steel without Fuel to the British Association meeting at Cheltenham in 1856. It set out the Bessemer process. He opened the Bessemer Steel Works in Sheffield in 1858.1,2

Why it matters

The paper set out the Bessemer process of steelmaking.1,2

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InspiredHenry BessemerBessemer delivered his paper to the British Association at Cheltenham in 1856.1

Events

An example ofHall and Heroult invent electrolytic aluminium smeltingBessemer's steel paper came in 1856. Hall and Heroult patented aluminium in 1886.1

Sources

  1. Henry Bessemer (collection people record) Science Museum Group
  2. Cheltenham (item Q206988), coordinate location P625 Wikidata
  3. Wikidata item Q334055 (Bessemer process)

Pictures on this page: Henry Bessemer 1890s2.jpg, Unknown (Mondadori Publishers) (Public domain).

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