It must have taken no small amount of courage to then present himself in Bessemer the following night.
Bessemer, with his steel-mines, as his furnaces at the ore-bank may be termed, was then in the future.
This hook is to be made out of soft Bessemer steel, which of course is very different from high carbon steel.
A Bessemer converter is actually a big retort with air holes at the bottom where molten iron is purified into steel with air.
By mid-1861, on the other hand, Bessemer was beginning to meet with increasing respect from the trade.
The Bessemer process makes enormous masses of steel and makes it very cheaply; but it has one fault—it is too quick.
