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 Copy Share Image
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me. — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
