Henry Bessemer, British engineer, inventor and industrialist, 1880. Artist: Spy

Henry Bessemer, British engineer, inventor and industrialist, 1880. Artist: Spy

1-157-202 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

Henry Bessemer, British engineer, inventor and industrialist, 1880. Bessemer (1813-1898) was a prolific inventor, but is best known for discovering the Bessemer Process for manufacturing steel, which made the cheap production of steel in bulk possible for the first time. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, November 1880.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Sir Leslie Matthew Ward, attributed to: British: Illustrator for Vanity Fair, artist, painter, caricaturist
Subject
  1. Henry Bessemer: British: Inventor, engineer

Medium
  1. Lithograph

Picture Type
  1. Caricature
  2. Portrait

Category Hierarchy

Science & Nature Technology & Innovation

People Famous People

Trade & Industry Manufacturing & Heavy Industry

Artistic Representations Portraits

Artistic Representations Caricatures


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3282x5327
File Size : 51,221kb


Aliases

  1. 001547
  1. 001547
  1. 0460000179
  1. 1-157-202
  1. 1157202
  1. 179

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