Henry Bessemer quotes

Henry Bessemer was an English inventor and engineer, renowned for inventing the Bessemer process for mass-producing steel. This innovation greatly improved the efficiency and affordability of steel manufacturing in the 19th century. He transformed the industrial landscape and paved the way for modern engineering and construction. Here are 7 of his quotes:

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.

Henry Bessemer

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

Henry Bessemer

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

Henry Bessemer

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Bessemer

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

Henry Bessemer

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

Henry Bessemer