BESSEMER CONVERTER • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Bessemer converter

... plus in the shade," he reasoned silently. "That's hot any way you take it. But taking it in the face at forty-five an hour is too much like looking into a Bessemer converter!" ...

— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin

... connection it is interesting to note that the fibrous texture referred to is imparted to wrought iron by the presence in it of a small proportion of slag from the puddling furnace, and that this can be secured in the Bessemer converter also if desired. The so-called Klein-Bessemerei, carried on at Avesta in Sweden for several years past, produces an exclusively soft, fibrous iron by the simple device of pouring slag and iron together into the ingot mould. This requires however a very small charge ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 • Various