“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.”

About Henry Bessemer

Inventor • British

Sir Henry Bessemer was an English inventor whose steel-making process became the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century. The Bessemer process involved removing impurities from the iron by...