21. Ironically, it was the Bessemer Process which made Bessemer City's early iron smelting industry obsolete. 22. The exposition also introduced the use of caoutchouc for rubber production and the Bessemer process for steel manufacture. 23. Other major components of this infrastructure were the new methods for manufacturing steel, especially the Bessemer process . 24. The puddling process began to be displaced with the introduction of the Bessemer process , which produced steel. 25. A now-uncommon form is batch treatment of pig iron to produce steel by the Bessemer process . 26. Ward took great interest in the first experiments of the apparatus for the Bessemer process of making steel. 27. Steel construction was first made possible in the 1850s when Henry Bessemer developed the Bessemer process to produce steel. 28. In 1882 he formed the Staffordshire Steel Ingot & Iron Company Ltd to produce steel using the Bessemer process . 29. By the end of the 19th century the Bessemer process was displaced by the open hearth furnace ( OHF ). 30. In 1861 Zoheth S . Durfee went to Europe to study the Bessemer process and to obtain the Bessemer patent rights.
