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Sir Henry Bessemer, F. R. S. An autobiography

by: Bessemer, Henry, Sir, 1813-1898; Bessemer, Henry, Sir, 1813-1898

Publication date: 1905

Topics: Bessemer, Henry, Sir, 1813-1898, Bessemer process

Publisher: London, Offices of "Engineering,"

Collection: cdl; americana

Contributor: University of California Libraries

Language: English

Preface.--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

Addeddate: 2007-03-20 18:20:40

Associated-names: Bessemer, Henry, Sir, 1813-1898

Bookplateleaf: 0005

Call number: nrlf_ucb:GLAD-151191259

Camera: 1Ds

Collection-library: nrlf_ucb

Copyright-evidence: Evidence reported by ian frederick-rothwell for item sirhenrybessemer00bessrich on March 20, 2007: no visible notice of copyright; stated date is 1905.