Main entry:

Bessemer, Henry, Sir, 1813-1898, author

Title & Author:

Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S. An autobiography. With a concluding chapter.

Publication:

London, Offices of "Engineering, " 1905.

Description:

xv, 380 pages, 51 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, plates, portraits ; 29 x 23 cm

Notes:
Concluding chapter by the editor with the assistance of Mr. Henry Bessemer.
List of patents granted to Henry Bessemer, 1838-1883, p. 329-332.
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.

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Subject:

Bessemer, Henry, Sir, 1813-1898.
Bessemer, Henry 1813-1898
Bessemer, Henry.
Bessemer process.
Inventors Great Britain Biography.
Industrial designers Great Britain Biography.
Industrial design Great Britain History.
Procédé Bessemer.
Inventeurs Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Designers Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Design Grande-Bretagne Histoire.

Form/genre:

Autobiographie.
Autobiographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Biographies

Added entries:

Bessemer, Henry, Sir, 1813-1898.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278145
Call No.: BIB 213595
Status: Available