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100 1 $aBessemer, Henry,$cSir,$d1813-1898.
245 10 $aSir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S. :$bAn autobiography /$cWith a concluding chapter.
260 $aLondon :$bOffices of "Engineering,",$c1905.
300 $axv, 380 p., 51 pl. :$bill., ports., facsims. ;$c29 x 23 cm.
500 $aConcluding chapter by the editor with the assistance of Mr. Henry Bessemer.
500 $aList of patents granted to Henry Bessemer, 1838-1883, p. 329-332.
505 0 $aPreface.--Early days.--The reward of invention.--Compressing plumbago dust, casting type, type-composing machine, etc.--Utrecht velvet.--The manufacture of bronze powder.--Improvements in sugar manufacture.--A holiday in Germany.--Improvements in glass manufacture.--The exhibition of 1851.--Early gunnery experiments.--The genesis of the Bessemer process.--The Bessemer process.-- Bessemer steel and Colonel Eardley Wilmot.--The Bessemer process and the War office.--Bessemer steel: the Armstrong controversy.--Bessemer steel guns.--Cast steel for shipbuilding.--Manganese in steel-making.--Ebbw Vale.--The Bessemer saloon steam-ship.--Conclusion.
650 0 $aBessemer process.
700 1 $aBessemer, Henry,$cSir,$d1813-1898.
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