[ 117]See U.S. Patent Office, Decision of Commissioner of Patents, dated June 15, 1871
[ 118]U.S. Patent Office, Decision of Commissioner of Patents dated February 12, 1870
[ 119]William T. Jeans, The creators of the age of steel, London, 1884
[ 120]Bessemer dealt with Kelly's claim to priority in a letter to Engineering, 1896, vol. 61, p. 367
[ 121]Louis C. Hunter, "The heavy industries since 1860," in H. F. Williamson (editor), The growth of the American economy, New York, 1944, p. 469