USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the name of the process that produced steel more quickly and cheaply?
A
The Carnegie Steeler
B
The Iron Forge
C
The Bessemer Process
D
Solid and Safe Steel
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The manufacturing process, called the cementation process, consisted of heating bars of wrought iron together with charcoal for periods of up to a week in a long stone box. This produced blister steel. The blister steel was put in a crucible with wrought iron and melted, producing crucible steel.

Detailed explanation-2: -The bessemer process reduces molten pig iron in so-called bessemer converters-egg-shaped, silica, clay, or dolomite-lined containers with capacities of 5 to 30 tons of molten iron. An opening at the narrow upper portion of the bessemer converter allows iron to be introduced and the finished product to be poured out.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Bessemer Steel Process was a method of producing high-quality steel by shooting air into molten steel to burn off carbon and other impurities. It was named after the British inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, who worked to develop the process in the 1850s.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Bessemer process, named for an Englishman, Henry Bessemer, was the first step. It made the production of steel more efficient and less expensive. Based on the oxidation of impurities in iron, and using less coal, the process was first applied in this country about 1865.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Bessemer process made possible the manufacture of large amounts of high-quality steel for the first time. This, in turn, provided steel at relatively low cost to various industries. By revolutionizing the steel industry, the Bessemer process helped to spur on the Industrial Revolution.

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