Bessemer

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1. Bessemer - Noun

2. Bessemer - Proper noun

Meaning

British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898)

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The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter. Robert Stawell Ball

A Bessemer converter could treat a "heat" (batch of hot metal) of 5 to 30 tons at a time. Source: Internet

According to his autobiography Bessemer was working with an ordinary reverberatory furnace but during a test, some pieces of pig iron were jostled off the side of the ladle, and were left above the ladle in the furnace's heat. Source: Internet

According to Bessemer, his invention was inspired by a conversation with Napoleon III in 1854 pertaining to the steel required for better artillery. Source: Internet

After suffering from seasickness in 1868, he designed the SS Bessemer (also called the "Bessemer Saloon"), a passenger steamship with a cabin on gimbals designed to stay level, however rough the sea, to save her passengers from seasickness. Source: Internet

Britney’s mother, Lynne Spears, however, supports Britney’s decision to remove her dad as her conservator and have Bessemer Trust as her sole conservator. Source: Internet

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