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The Bessemer Process

Natural resources were being discovered in the US. Things such as oil and coal were found in abundance. Another one of these found was the abundance of iron. Iron isn't very strong, but after removing impurities, it becomes a much better metal. Al that was needed was a system for creating this metal: steel. Invented independently by Henry Bessemer and William Kelly at around 1850, this process was soon widely used to create steel.the process itself was injecting air into the molten iron, removing the impurities. Yet in this age of invention, even this process would eventually be replaced by more innovative methods.

Citations: The Americans Holt McDougal. Student ed. Orlando Florida: Houghton, 2012. Print.