Bessemer process
Meaning
Noun
- The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel, based on blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities by oxidation.
Origin
- Named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856.
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