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Henry Bessemer, British engineer, inventor and industrialist, 1880. Creator: Sir Leslie Matthew Ward.
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Henry Bessemer, British engineer, inventor and industrialist, 1880. Bessemer (1813-1898) was a prolific inventor, but is best known for discovering the Bessemer Process for manufacturing steel, which made the cheap production of steel in bulk possible for the first time. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, November 1880.
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Creator
- Sir Leslie Matthew Ward, attributed to: British: Artist, painter, caricaturist
Subject
- Henry Bessemer: British: Inventor, engineer
Category Hierarchy
Science & Nature Technology & Innovation
Trade & Industry Manufacturing & Heavy Industry
Artistic Representations Portraits
Artistic Representations Caricatures
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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3282x5327
File Size : 51,221kb
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- 001547
- 001547
- 0460000179
- 1-157-202
- 1157202
- 179