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Iron: various machines involved in the Bessemer process of steel manufacture. Engraving c.1861.

Engineering: the Bessemer smelting furnace installed at Baxter House, St Pancras Road, London. Wood engraving, 1856.

Sir Henry Bessemer. Mezzotint by T. O. Barlow after R. Lehmann.

Sir Henry Bessemer. Colour lithograph by Sir L. Ward [Spy], 1880.

On a new system of manufacturing sugar from the cane, and its advantages : as compared with the method generally used in the West Indies : also, some remarks on the best mode of insuring its general and simultaneous introduction into the British colonies / by Henry Bessemer.

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On a new system of manufacturing sugar from the cane, and its advantages : as compared with the method generally used in the West Indies : also, some remarks on the best mode of insuring its general and simultaneous introduction into the British colonies / by Henry Bessemer.