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World Events Industrial Revolution Bessemer Method (Date unknown)
Plate from Sir Henry Bessemer's autobiography, published in 1905. In 1856, in response to demand for stronger cannon able to fire a new type of artillery shell in the Crimean War, he invented the This was the first process for producing large amounts of good quality steel cheap Previously, steel was available in small quantities produced by either the cementation or crucible processes. Hence engineers were restricted to using wrought iron, which is relatively strong in tension, or cast iron, which is brittle and weak in tension. in tension.
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