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Definition: The Bessemer Steel Process was a process of producing high-quality steel by shooting air into molten steel to burn off carbon and other impurities. It was named for the British inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, who worked to develop the process in the 1850s.
Henry Bessemer. By developing a one-step process to make low-cost steel, Henry Bessemer provided the raw materials from which our modern world is made. In the U.S., where natural resources and risk-taking investors were abundant, giant Bessemer steel mills sprung up to drive the expanding nation's rise as a dominant world economic and industrial leader.