Disable ads!

10 quotes by Henry Bessemer

Henry Bessemer Born Henry Bessemer (1813-01-19)19 January 1813 Charlton, Hertfordshire, England Died 15 March 1898(1898-03-15) (aged 85) London Nationality English Occupation engineer and inventor Known for Development of the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel. Awards Albert Medal (1872) Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English engineer, inventor, and businessman. Bessemer's name is chiefly known...
Read full biography of Henry Bessemer →

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to... →

0

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent... →

0

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my... →

0

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a... →

0

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more... →

0

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was... →

0

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to... →

0

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.

0

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

0

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

0
Add a quote!
Background photo by Giuliana