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Bessemer converter — n. a special furnace used to purify pig iron using the Bessemer process. Etymology: Sir H. Bessemer, Engl. engineer d. 1898 * * * noun a refractory lined furnace used to convert pig iron into steel by the Bessemer process • Hypernyms: ↑converter … Useful english dictionary
Bessemer process — [bes′ə mər] n. [after Sir Henry Bessemer (1813 98), Eng engineer who developed it] a method of making steel by blasting air through molten pig iron in a large container (Bessemer converter) to burn away the carbon and other impurities … English World dictionary
Bessemer process — The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron. The process is named after its inventor, Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1855. The process was… … Wikipedia
Bessemer process — Metall. a process of producing steel, in which impurities are removed by forcing a blast of air through molten iron. [1855 60; after H. BESSEMER] * * * Technique for converting pig iron to steel invented by Henry Bessemer in England in 1856 and… … Universalium
Bessemer, Sir Henry — born Jan. 19, 1813, Charlton, Hertfordshire, Eng. died March 15, 1898, London British inventor and engineer. Son of a metallurgist, he set up his own casting business at 17. At that time the only iron based construction materials were cast iron… … Universalium
Bessemer Progess — The Bessemer process, which de carbonizes melted pig iron into steel by means of a blast of air, was named after its inventor, Englishman Sir Henry Bessemer (1813 1898). The process was a boon to manufacturing, for it greatly reduced costs of… … Dictionary of eponyms
Bessemer , Sir Henry — (1813–1898) British inventor and engineer Bessemer was the son of a mechanical engineer who had fled from the French Revolution. After leaving the village school in Charlton, where he was born, he worked as a type caster, until the family moved… … Scientists
Pig iron — Iron I ron ([imac] [u^]rn), n. [OE. iren, AS. [=i]ren, [=i]sen, [=i]sern; akin to D. ijzer, OS. [=i]sarn, OHG. [=i]sarn, [=i]san, G. eisen, Icel. [=i]sarn, j[=a]rn, Sw. & Dan. jern, and perh. to E. ice; cf. Ir. iarann, W. haiarn, Armor. houarn.]… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Bessemer process — noun a steel making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort (a Bessemer converter). Origin C19: named after the… … English new terms dictionary
converter — [kən vʉr′tər] n. a person or thing that converts; specif., a) a furnace for converting pig iron into steel in the Bessemer process b) an electrical device for converting alternating current into direct current: cf. INVERTER c) the part of a radio … English World dictionary
Henry Bessemer — Sir Henry Bessemer (January 19, 1813–March 15, 1898), English engineer and inventor. Bessemer s name is chiefly known in connection with the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel.Early lifeHenry Bessemer s father, Anthony, was born in… … Wikipedia
