Bessemer process

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an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities

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Often called Bessemer converters, they are also called Gilchrist-Thomas converters, after their inventor Sidney Gilchrist Thomas.
After the recent creation of a memorial to Sir Henry Bessemer, IMechE archivist Karyn French looks back at the inventor's wide-ranging achievements
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