The public house "The Fountain" in Sheffield city centre was renamed "The Bessemer" in homage to Henry Bessemer, who had a huge impact on the Steel City's development
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Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Bessemer was an English inventor, whose steel-making process was the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years. He played a significant role in establishing the town of Sheffield, nicknamed ‘Steel City’, as a major industrial centre.
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business · English inventor (1813–1898) · engineer · inventor · metallurgist · businessperson · also Henry Bessemer, Sir Henry Bessemer, Bessemer
Born 19 January 1813 · Died 15 March 1898 · Q310201
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2002).
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The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) was established from mergers encompassing historical organisations including the Iron and Steel Institute, of which Bessemer was president from 1871 to 1873; the lat
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1898· 1 entry
Died 1898-03-15.
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1895· 1 entry
Was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1879· 1 entry
Was knighted for his contribution to science and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society
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1872· 1 entry
Won Albert Medal (1872).
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1868· 1 entry
Designed the SS Bessemer (also called the "Bessemer Saloon"), a passenger steamship with a cabin on gimbals designed to stay level, however rough the sea, to save her passengers from seasickness
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1857· 2 entries
Effectively nullifying Bessemer's 1855 US patent
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For the casting of metal between contrarotating rollers – a forerunner of today's continuous casting processes and remarkably, Bessemer's original idea has been implemented in the direct continuous casting of steel strip
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1848· 1 entry
But it was not commercially successful ( chapter 8)
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1813· 1 entry
Born 1813-01-19.
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