Quotes by Henry Bessemer
“I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.”— Henry Bessemer
“Steam is the most powerful and yet the most docile of all the mighty forces which man has yet discovered and made his slave.”— Henry Bessemer
“The great object of my life has been to make steel so cheap that it could be used for all purposes.”— Henry Bessemer
“I have always felt that the true reward of an inventor is not the money he may make, but the consciousness that he has done something to benefit his fellow men.”— Henry Bessemer
“The world is full of men who are trying to catch the counterfeit coin of a fleeting popularity.”— Henry Bessemer
“In the course of my experiments I found that the great secret of making good steel was to get rid of the phosphorus.”— Henry Bessemer