Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An Autobiography

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mattm
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Sir Henry Bessemer was a prolific English inventor in the 19th century as well as a successful businessman. He is best known for inventing a process for mass producing steel at low cost.

https://books.google.com/books?id=XOA-AAAAYAAJ
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I can't access the full book but based on this snippet
Reprinted in 1990, this book is based upon the author's Metallurgy in Archaeology (1962). Incorporating the results of work done between 1960 and 1982, this comprehensively revised text covers native metals, copper and copper-based alloys, tin, lead, silver, antimony, and the fabrication of nonferrous metals.
that would not be able to be used.

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There are some scans of the 1905 edition over at Archive which would be OK to use. Here's one of them: https://archive.org/details/sirhenrybessemer00bess
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annise wrote: October 2nd, 2021, 4:51 pm I can't access the full book but based on this snippet
Reprinted in 1990, this book is based upon the author's Metallurgy in Archaeology (1962). Incorporating the results of work done between 1960 and 1982, this comprehensively revised text covers native metals, copper and copper-based alloys, tin, lead, silver, antimony, and the fabrication of nonferrous metals.
that would not be able to be used.

Anne
Weird. That snippet appears for me at https://books.google.com/books/about/Sir_Henry_Bessemer_F_R_S.html?id=imtEAQAAMAAJ which is a different scan from the one I thought I linked. That snippet must be mixed up with a different publication because Bessemer died before 1900.
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