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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.
At the time of his death in 1898, Sir Henry Bessemer â the father of the steel industry â had 100 British patents, a small fortune, and a knighthood to his credit. But were it not for the probing questions of his fiancÃ©, he might have remained an anonymous bureaucrat and our world might still be built of cast iron.