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The volume production of inexpensive steel products realized by the processes alongside those of Bessemer’s has recast the world. Cost effective steel products has allowed manufacturers to design and develop a host of large and small products using steel as a base material. Inclusive of these products are ships, aircraft, buildings, forks, spoons, witches, razors, saws, and tools and utensils of every type (Spoerl 1).
The systematized and inexpensive production of steel became feasible only after the development of the Bessemer method, named after its ingenious inventor, British metallurgist Sir Henry Bessemer. Bessemer posited that the presence
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