11. The Bessemer process was also restricted to certain ores ( low phosphate hematite ). 12. Bessemer City is named for Sir Henry Bessemer who created the Bessemer process for smelting iron. 13. Zoheth S . Durfee went to England to acquire the patent rights to the Bessemer process . 14. Indeed, the Second Industrial Revolution is largely defined by new availability of Bessemer process steel. 15. He built a mill in 1876 using the Bessemer process for steel rails and quadrupled his production. 16. The Bessemer process for steel manufacture produced too many imperfections for large-scale use on ships. 17. The solution was to turn to steel rails, which the Bessemer process made competitive in price. 18. Its owners would later produce the first Bessemer process steel in the United States after the war. 19. It was established to exploit the recent introduction of the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel. 20. Another 19th-century steelmaking process was the Siemens-Martin process, which complemented the Bessemer process .
