NOUN
- a refractory-lined furnace used to convert pig iron into steel by the Bessemer process
How To Use Bessemer converter In A Sentence
- Manganese ores are used mainly in the manufacture of steel, the alloys spiegeleisen and ferromanganese being added to the molten steel after treatment in the Bessemer converter and open-hearth furnace in order to recarburize and purify the metal. The Economic Aspect of Geology
- The manufacture of steel was made possible by two new inventions, the Bessemer converter of 1856 and the Siemens-Martin open-hearth furnace of 1864.
- I detailed what progress was being made on the tools and machinery, how refinement of superior metals was coming along, and the construction of blast furnaces and prototype pumps for the Bessemer converters.
