bessemer in A Sentence

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    In the late 1850s, Henry Bessemer invented a new steelmaking process,

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    The Bessemer process reduced the time needed to make steel of this quality to about

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    Before the Bessemer process Britain had no practical method of reducing the carbon content of pig iron.

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    After the introduction of the Bessemer process, steel and wrought iron became similarly priced, and most manufacturers turned to steel.

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    The process is carried on in a large ovoid steel container lined with clay or dolomite called the Bessemer converter.

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    Bessemer decided to pay Mushet an annual pension of £300, a very considerable sum, which he paid for 25 years;

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    After the introduction of the Bessemer process, steel and wrought iron became similarly priced, and some users, primarily railroads, turned to steel.

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    Generally, Bessemer had invented many useful things, more than 100 patents, but we are interested in one invention, namely the Bessemer converter.

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    The Bessemer process was so fast(10-20 minutes for a heat) that it allowed little time for chemical analysis or adjustment of the alloying elements in the steel.

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    Com- which has to date raised nearly $68 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners as well as Insight- is very much playing on both of these themes.

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    The Bessemer process reduced the time needed to make steel of this quality to about half an hour while requiring only the coke needed initially to melt the pig iron.

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    The Bessemer process reduced to about half an hour the time needed to make steel of this quality while requiring only the coke needed to melt the pig iron initially.

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    In 1856, Bessemer registered a patent for a converter for smelting molten pig iron into steel by blowing air without the expense of fuel, which became the basis of the Bessemer process.

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    Bessemer decided to pay Mushet an annual pension of £300, a very considerable sum, which he paid for over 20 years; possibly with a view to keeping the Mushets from legal action.

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    Starting in January 1855 he began working on a way to produce steel in the massive quantities required for artillery and by October he filed his first patent related to the Bessemer process.

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    Bessemer licenced the patent for his process to five ironmasters, for a total of £27,000, but the licences failed to produce the quality of steel he had promised and he later bought them back for £32,500.

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    Bessemer licensed the patent for his process to five ironmasters, for a total of GBP 27,000, but the licenses failed to produce the quality of steel he had promised and he later bought them back for GBP 32,500.

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    Starting in January 1855 he began working on a way to produce steel in the massive quantities required for artillery and by October he filed his first patent related to the Bessemer process, he patented the method a year in 1856.

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    Mushet's procedure was not absolutely essential and Bessemer proved this in 1865 by exhibiting a series of steel samples made using his process alone, but the value of Mushet's procedure was shown by its near universal adoption in conjunction with the Bessemer Process.

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    Whether or not Mushet's patents could have been sustained is not known, but in 1866 Robert Mushet's 16 year old daughter traveled to London alone to confront Henry Bessemer at his offices, arguing that Bessemer's success was based on the results of her father's work.

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    But Bessemer was fortunate enough to maintain them intact without litigation, though he found it advisable to buy up the rights of one patentee, while in another case he was freed from anxiety by the patent being allowed to lapse in 1859 through non-payment of fees.

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    Bessemer licensed the patent for his process to four ironmasters, for a total of £27,000, but the licensees failed to produce the quality of steel he had promised-it was"rotten hot and rotten cold", according to his friend, William Clay-and he later bought them back for £32,500.

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    But Bessemer was fortunate enough to maintain them intact without litigation, though he found it advisable to buy up the rights of one patentee, while in the case of Robert Forester Mushet, was freed from anxiety by the patent being allowed to lapse in 1859 through non-payment of fees.

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