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Henry Bessemer

1813 - 1898

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Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years. He also played a significant role in establishing the town of Sheffield, nicknamed ‘Steel City’, as a major industrial centre.Bessemer had been trying to reduce the cost of steel-making for military ordnance, and developed his system for blowing air through molten pig iron to remove the impurities. This made steel easier, quicker and cheaper to manufacture, and revolutionised structural engineering. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Bessemer has received more than 617,179 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Bessemer is the 83rd most popular inventor (down from 80th in 2019), the 638th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 646th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Inventor.

Henry Bessemer is most famous for inventing the Bessemer process, which allowed steel to be made in a cheaper and faster way.

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  • 63.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Henry Bessemers by language

Over the past year Henry Bessemer has had the most page views in the with 64,577 views, followed by Spanish (11,730), and Vietnamese (11,212). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (109.40%), Catalan (52.29%), and Greek (42.38%)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Henry Bessemer ranks 83 out of 426. Before him are Jacques de Vaucanson, Alois Senefelder, Ray Tomlinson, Bi Sheng, Thomas Savery, and Sakichi Toyoda. After him are James Hargreaves, Richard Arkwright, Vladimir K. Zworykin, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Mary the Jewess, and William Webb Ellis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Henry Bessemer ranks 9. Before him are Søren Kierkegaard, David Livingstone, Claude Bernard, Ivar Aasen, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, and Georg Büchner. After him are Charles-Valentin Alkan, John Snow, Franz Miklosich, Camilla Collett, Baron Alexander von Bach, and Theophil Hansen. Among people deceased in 1898, Henry Bessemer ranks 19. Before him are Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Eleanor Marx, Félicien Rops, Theodor Fontane, John Newlands, and Syed Ahmad Khan. After him are Aubrey Beardsley, Heungseon Daewongun, William Ewart Gladstone, Edward Burne-Jones, Princess Francisca of Brazil, and Zachris Topelius.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Bessemer ranks 638 out of 8,785. Before him are Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850), Alice Liddell (1852), John Bunyan (1628), Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868), Julian Barnes (1946), and Kenneth MacAlpin (810). After him are Rudolf Abel (1903), W. H. Auden (1907), Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), James Hargreaves (1720), Philippa of England (1394), and James Paul Moody (1887).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, Henry Bessemer ranks 13. Before him are Frank Whittle (1907), John Logie Baird (1888), John Herschel (1792), John Boyd Dunlop (1840), Henry Fox Talbot (1800), and Thomas Savery (1650). After him are James Hargreaves (1720), Richard Arkwright (1732), William Webb Ellis (1806), John Harrison (1693), Edmund Cartwright (1743), and Samuel Crompton (1753).

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