Henry Bessemer

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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