I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention. — 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
