Research Paper On Henry Bessemer

Have you ever stopped and wondered how tall buildings are able to be stable? What strong material helps them stand tall and strong? Many buildings and structures we have these days could not have been possible if it wasn’t for Henry Bessemer. Today we can see that big countries, especially cities, are heavily influenced on tall skyscrapers. Structures and many architectures were stronger and lasted longer when Henry Bessemer developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively. But how could one improvement in steel manufacture change the rest of society for nearly the whole world? At the time of Henry Bessemer’s death in 1898- that father of the steel industry
- had 100 British patents, a small fortune, and a knighted for his contribution to science. Henry Bessemer was born in 1813, in Charlton,
He did this by blasting cool air on the steel to the molten iron. His process for this also called the pneumatic conversion process was created in 1856. This process was a new way to mass produce steel inexpensively. Henry’s most important was the Bessemer converter. This converter was able to produce 30 tons of high grade steel in just 30 minutes! At the time, this was such a huge step in the steel industry and the birth of the steel industry as we come to know it today. Bessemer’s famous one-step process for producing cheap, high quality steel made it possible for engineers to envision transcontinental railroads, sky-scraping office towers, bay spanning bridges, and unsinkable ships. People like Bessemer have made huge impacts in today’s world. He was a kid like you and I and by that time he was already doing big things. I hope this goes to show all of us here that if we put our mind and effort to what we are passionate about as how Bessemer was with his steel industry, we can achieve many things and impact the world for generations to come. Now go and do great things. Thank