1. Henry Bessemer, in full Sir Henry Bessemer, (born January 19, 1813, Charlton, Hertfordshire, England—died March 15, 1898, London), inventor and engineer who developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively (1856), leading to the development of the Bessemer converter

2. A British inventor called Henry Bessemer is generally credited with the invention of steel in 1856.

3. In 1874 he became the first recipient of the gold medal instituted by Sir Henry Bessemer.

4. The company even supplied a dome to the steel maker Henry Bessemer for the roof of his conservatory.

5. This also affected an attempt by Henry Bessemer to establish steel-making on the Greenwich Peninsula in the 1860s.

6. Invention of air converting of pig iron by Henry Bessemer (patent of 17th October, 1855) — Production of the first Bessemer steel by G.

7. It first became commercially viable in 1856 when Henry Bessemer of England invented a process to extract excess amounts of carbon from pig iron.