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Bessemer

Industrial city in Jefferson County, Alabama, southeast USA, 25 km/16 mi southwest of Birmingham; population (2000) 29,700. Situated close to rich coal and iron deposits, Bessemer was planned for steel production. Today, chemical and railway-car manufacturing are important. The town is named after Henry Bessemer, the inventor of the Bessemer process of steelmaking.



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So, one of the teams wore chain-mail ulsters, and the other wore plate- armor made of my new Bessemer steel.
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Just as the click of the reaper means bread, and the purr of the sewing-machine means clothes, and the roar of the Bessemer converter means steel, and the rattle of the press means education, so the ring of the telephone bell has come to mean unity and organization.
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He was taken to the Bessemer furnace, where they made billets of steel--a domelike building, the size of a big theater.
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