... purchased Kelly's patent, and is the name people associate today with one of the major processes of producing steel because Bessemer had been experimenting with a similar process for making steel. Bessemer had patented his own decarbonization process utilizing a blast of air. Bessemer initially encountered difficulties in commercially producing steel by his method because he was unaware of the importance of high quality iron ... ore to the process. Eventually he was successful and his steel works at Sheffield specialized in producing ordinance guns for the ... military and steel rails. ...

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