WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The modern process is named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856.

Detailed explanation-2: -Though named after Sir Henry Bessemer of England, the process evolved from the contributions of many investigators before it could be used on a broad commercial basis. It was apparently conceived independently and almost concurrently by Bessemer and by William Kelly of the United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -IF the industrial revolution was built on steel, then the father of the industrial revolution was Henry Bessemer. It was the Bessemer process that made steel available in industrial quantities at an affordable price.