My life at this time was pretty much one of hard work and steady attention to business, from which I could only snatch short intervals.
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Nevertheless, several of my friends have from time to time tried to induce me to write a concise account of my steel invention in my own quiet way.Henry Bessemer
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.
Henry Bessemer
The ordinary bronze powder is, as before mentioned, made from an exceedingly thin leaf of beaten metal, resembling an ordinary leaf of gold.
Henry Bessemer
The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.
Henry Bessemer
The new bronze caused quite a stir in the trade. The locality of its origin and its mode of manufacture were kept a profound secret.
Henry Bessemer
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.
Henry Bessemer
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