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