Transformation to Steel: How the Bessemer Process Sparked the Industrial Revolution
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"…….the Bessemer invention takes rank with the great events which have changed the face of society since the Middle Ages. The invention of printing, the construction of the magnetic compass, the discovery of America and the introduction of the steam engine are the only capital events in modern history which belong to the same category as the Bessemer Process."- ABRAHAM S. HEWITT: Journal of the Iron & Steel Institute, 1890, No 2 p.89