Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.
Subtitle: An autobiography.
By: With a concluding chapter.
Contributors: Bessemer, Henry, Sir, 1813-1898.
Publisher: Offices of "Engineering,"
Published: 1905
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Bessemer process
Notes: Concluding chapter by the editor with the assistance of Mr. Henry Bessemer.
List of patents granted to Henry Bessemer, 1838-1883, p. 329-332.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: Early days.; title: The reward of invention.; title: Compressing plumbago dust, casting type, type-composing machine, etc.; title: Utrecht velvet.; title: The manufacture of bronze powder.; title: Improvements in sugar manufacture.; title: A holiday in Germany.; title: Improvements in glass manufacture.; title: The exhibition of 1851.; title: Early gunnery experiments.; title: The genesis of the Bessemer process.; title: The Bessemer process.; title: Bessemer steel and Colonel Eardley Wilmot.; title: The Bessemer process and the War office.; title: Bessemer steel: the Armstrong controversy.; title: Bessemer steel guns.; title: Cast steel for shipbuilding.; title: Manganese in steel-making.; title: Ebbw Vale.; title: The Bessemer saloon steam-ship.; title: Conclusion.