Sujet
Henry Bessemer, English engineer and inventor, 1881. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Légende
Henry Bessemer, English engineer and inventor, 1881. Born at Charlton, near Hitchen, Hertfordshire, Bessemer (1813-1893) took out many patents but is best remembered for his invention of the Bessemer process, patented in 1855, for more cheaply producing steel from pig iron in a Bessemer converter. He established a steelworks which utilised the process at Sheffield in 1859. Bessemer was knighted in 1859 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society the same year. From Men of Mark by Thompson Cooper. (London, 1881).
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1881
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B63_059
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (999,2Ko) / 32,1cm x 39,0cm / 3788 x 4610 (300dpi)