If you've heard the name Bessemer, you've heard it in connection with his most important invention: the Bessemer process. In terms of Industrial Revolution inventions, it ranks among the steam ...

Process innovations often change the game and allow upstarts to unseat incumbents. The Bessemer process did this for the steel industry, here's a company that is trying to do this for titanium.

The Bessemer process is three times faster than the open-hearth, and correspondingly cheaper; but since the quality of the steel in a Bessemer “heat” must be judged by fallible human eyes, it ...

Factories have been a thriving part of the global economy for more than two centuries, well before Henry Ford and his famous assembly line. Back then, manufacturing was at the cutting edge of U.S.

This article was originally published with the title “The Bessemer Process under Pressure” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 22 No. 15 (April 1870), p. 235 doi:10.1038 ...

This article was originally published with the title “Improvement in the Bessemer Process” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 11 No. 6 (August 1864), p. 88 doi:10.1038 ...

DURING and since the war the position in this country with regard to the supply of basic phosphatic fertilisers has undergone a radical change. On one hand, the ousting of the older Bessemer ...