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bessemer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to the process for decarbonizing and desiliconizing pig iron by passing air through the molten metal, 1856, named for engineer and inventor Sir Harry Bessemer (1813-1898) who invented it.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 12790
Land area (2000): 40.702947 sq. miles (105.420145 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.067247 sq. miles (0.174169 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 40.770194 sq. miles (105.594314 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05980
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.391343 N, 86.956569 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 35020
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Housing Units (2000): 496
Land area (2000): 1.671646 sq. miles (4.329542 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.053844 sq. miles (0.139455 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.725490 sq. miles (4.468997 sq. km)
FIPS code: 05936
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.973960 N, 80.487517 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 16112
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Housing Units (2000): 1179
Land area (2000): 5.467225 sq. miles (14.160048 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.467225 sq. miles (14.160048 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07960
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 46.478024 N, 90.051426 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 49911
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Wikipedia
Bessemer may refer to:
- Bessemer process, a method of making steel
- Henry Bessemer, (1813-1898), English inventor of the Bessemer process
- SS Bessemer, a Victorian experimental paddle steamer
Bessemer, Colorado was a city in Colorado that was incorporated in 1886. The community was named after Henry Bessemer, an English inventor. It was one of four adjacent towns settled after the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859. The communities of South Pueblo, Central Pueblo, Pueblo, and Bessemer were later merged to create the modern City of Pueblo, Colorado. Bessemer was an independent city until 1894 and was the last city to join Pueblo. The former community of Bessemer is sometimes now referred to as the Bessemer neighborhood.
Usage examples of "bessemer".
It begins with an Englishman of French ancestry, Bessemer, and one Kelly, an Irish-American, born on the old Fort Duquesne point.
Orpheus, who sang so entrancingly that mortals forgot their punishments and followed him, and Amphion, who drew the stones into their places in the walls by his music, performed no more of a miracle than a lad who tips a Bessemer converter.
The other, Miss Bessemer, a little old maid of fifty, Condy had on rare occasions seen at the flat, where every one called her Aunt Dodd.
I had visited steelworks and the like during the manufacture of components of my own Time Machine, and earlier devices: I had watched molten iron run from the blast-furnaces into Bessemer converters, there to be oxidized and mixed with spiegel and carbon.
And then for the first time in her life, there in that airy, golden Chinese restaurant, in the city from which he hasted to flee, Travis Bessemer fell under the charm of the little spectacled colonial, to whose song we all must listen and to whose pipe we all must dance.
Dick Forsythe take a constitutional out there every Saturday morning--well, as I was saying, Rivers and Miss Bessemer came upon our party rather unexpectedly.
Young Bessemer had invented many devices, when Napoleon III, one day in a conversation, complained to him that the metal used in making cannon was of poor quality and expensive.
An OUTSIDE INFLUENCE beguiles it into the Bessemer furnace and refines it into steel of the first quality.
Bessemer to take Blix back to New York with her, and educate her to some woman's profession.
All I know is, we can process a hundred times as much steel in my Bessemer converter as we would have been able to do in Wayland's electric dipstick oven.
By treatment in a Bessemer converter, cast iron is changed into steel.
The Bessemer converter to make cast iron into steel took many thousands of man-hours, as did the rolling mill that made sheetmetal and the stamping line that pressed out helmets, breast plates, shoulder cops, and the other twenty-seven pieces it took to cover a man.
We know how to make a Bessemer converter to make steel from the pig iron from the blast furnace to make iron to make wire for a telegraph.
Hard to be precise with this Bessemer process, but it works in a sort of more-or-less fashion.
For all other major components, the initial preference was for wrought iron, but this changed once the Bessemer process (1856) made steel affordable.