"I was quite unable to make any white……" — Henry Bessemer
"I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery"
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Henry Bessemer
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11 Quotes by Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer has 11 quotes on this site.
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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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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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At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I…
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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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More Alloy Quotes
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
— Samuel Butler
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But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of…
— James Madison
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After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there…
— Obafemi Awolowo
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I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of…
— George Washington
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I am of the theory that all of our transcendental connections, anything we're drawn to, be it a person, a…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through…
— Randolph Sinks Foster
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Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance…
— Dan Simmons
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Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
— Dan Gable
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The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures…
— Anthony Trollope
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Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum…
— Tim Burton
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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men…
— Abraham Lincoln
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If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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