Go to updated and illustrated post. 1856: Englishman Henry Bessemer receives a U.S. patent for a new steel-making process that revolutionizes the industry. The Bessemer converter was a squat, ugly, ...
September 22, 1856.—The invention for which a patent was granted to Robert F. Mushet on Sept. 22, 1856, was very largely responsible for the immediate success of the Bessemer steel process. By the ...
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