BESSEMER PROCESS • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Bessemer process

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/bˈɛsəmər prˈɑsˌɛs/ Listen

Bessemer process

noun

An industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low cost.

See images of 'Bessemer process'

Etymology of 'Bessemer process'

Share |

"Bessemer process" Quotes from Famous Books

... part in the invention of the Bessemer process of making steel. Here, the contemporary discussion in the technical press is re-examined to throw light on the relations of these various claimants to the iron and steel industry of their time, as having a possible ...

— The Beginnings of Cheap Steel • Philip W. Bishop

... proper proportions of cast steel scrap with the proper amounts of silicon and manganese to produce that chemical composition which was known to be necessary in best castings. It was in consequence of this difficulty that many makers resorted to the addition of hematite pigs. The Bessemer process was used much more extensively upon the Continent than in this country in the manufacture of castings. It seemed likely that Mr. Allen's agitator for agitating the steel in the ladle so as to remove the gases would ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 • Various

... Ore vessels were constructed capable of carrying mammoth cargoes; docks, railroads and canals were built; and the products of the mines taken to lake and inland cities. Improvements, meanwhile, were being continually made in the steel industry, such as the Bessemer process, by which the impurities were burned out of the iron ore, and exactly enough carbon introduced into the molten metal to transform it ...

— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

Words linked to "Bessemer process" : industrial process, steel production