Henry Bessemer

Rarity: Uncommon

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What Wikipedia says

Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steel-making process was the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years.

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