WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Made it so steel could be made faster
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Made it so the railroad industry had a cheaper supply of steel
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Made it so workers had more rights
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Made it so that skyscrapers could be built more cheaply
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Bessemer process allowed steel to be produced without fuel, using the impurities of the iron to create the necessary heat. This drastically reduced the costs of steel production, but raw materials with the required characteristics could be difficult to find.
Detailed explanation-2: -One difficulty with Bessemer’s process was that it could convert only a pig iron low in phosphorus and sulfur. (These elements could have been removed by adding a basic flux such as lime, but the basic slag produced would have degraded the acidic refractory lining of Bessemer’s converter.)
Detailed explanation-3: -The biggest way that the Bessemer Process changed the world was by making steel cost-effective and mass-producible. Steel became a dominant construction material solely because of this invention.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Bessemer process allowed the mass production of steel, a material that shaped our modern world. The Bessemer process was used in order to produce steel from wrought iron. It changed the steel industry and inspired further developments in steel making. Its impact reached beyond imagination.