Conclusion

            The Bessemer steel process showed the world a whole new way of creating a product that is pleasing but lasts.  It allowed goods to be created more efficiently and helped design new innovations. Employing an immeasurable amount of people, the process allowed a new kind of business to be started.  The impact of the Bessemer steel process not only benefited the production line and buildings, but the entire metal industry. Business worldviews changed. It was now seen that you could mass-produce and even create a successful monopoly like John Rockefeller's oil companies, the steel process considerably the best one. Throughout his life Henry Bessemer earned over one hundred and ten patents. His innovation of the steel process was by far the most significant, impacting the world and changing it forever.

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“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.” Sir Henry Bessemer