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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.
The Bessemer Process was created in England by Henry Bessemer in 1855 and brought into production by Henry Bessemer in 1860. To create the Bessemer Process he invented a large, pear-shaped receptacle called a converter and utilized a blast of air in a de-carbonization process to create the steel from iron.