The beginnings of cheap steel

by Philip W. Bishop

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[ ⁴³]Mining Journal, 1856, vol. 26, p. 707

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[ ⁴⁴]Bessemer, op. cit. (footnote 7), p. 290

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[ ⁴⁵]The American Iron and Steel Institute's "Steel centennial (1957) press information" (see footnote 2), includes a pamphlet, "Kelly lighted the fireworks ..." by Vaughn Shelton (New York, 1956), which asserts (p. 12) that Bessemer paid the renewal fee and became the owner of Mushet's "vital" patent

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[ ⁴⁶]Robert Mushet, The Bessemer-Mushet process, Cheltenham, 1883, p. 24; The Engineer, 1861, vol. 12, pp. 177 and 189

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[ ⁴⁷]The Engineer, 1862, vol. 14, p. 3. Bessemer, op. cit. (footnote 7), p. 296