This text originally appeared in 1913 as a paper, published in the Memoirs of the Manchester Lit. and Phil. This section of the Memoirs was offprinted at that time and bound as a small booklet, which is the subject of this digital re-issue.
Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S. (1813-1898)
Section of early Bessemer Converter as worked at Baxter House, St Pancras, 1856, with bottom-stoppered ladle and hydraulic ingot mould
Göran Fredrik Göransson (1819-1900)
Göransson's converter at Edske, 1858
Letter by Bessemer to the author, 1894
Robert Forester Mushet (1811-1891)
The world's Bessemer steel production in 1912
Edske masugn, där Bessemers Stålberednings method först genomfördes den 18 Juli, 1858