Quotes by Henry Bessemer - Page 1

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.
Henry Bessemer / Engineer
London
March
New World
World
Where World Me
World Me New
Arrived
Opened
Seemed
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I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery
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Enough
Powder
White
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I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.
Henry Bessemer / Engineer
Enough
Hard
Machinery
Made
Powder
White
Quite
Metal
Unable
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We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.
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Queens
Cities
Fixed
Geek
Office
Dated
Street
Queen
Inventions
Offices
Patented
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The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.
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Attention
Bronze
Chosen
Powder
Secret
Guardians
However
Longer
Personal
Required
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I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
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Energy
Feet
Height
Temperament
Years
Arrived
Attained
Endowed
Extremely
Fraction
Youthful
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I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.
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Capacity
Invention
Ought
Speak
Days
Certainly
Early
Early Days
Episode
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It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.
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Overcoming
Process
Successful
Nothing
Had
Much
Scale
True
Been
Difficulties
Period
Small
Invent
Main
Necessarily
Small Scale
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In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.
Henry Bessemer / Engineer
Acquaintance
Curiosity
Intimate
Mere
Persons
Secrecy
Ask
Absolute
Admitted
Allowed
Although
Anyone
Case
Effective
Induced
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I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
Henry Bessemer / Engineer
Advantage
Belief
Bias
Fixed
Ideas
Immense
Practice
General
Dealing
Derived
Inasmuch
Suffer
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I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
Henry Bessemer / Engineer
Ideas
Long
Practice
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At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.
Henry Bessemer / Engineer
Enthusiasm
Giving
Improving
Instinct
Position
Profession
Steady
Acquired
Amateur
Commercial
Disadvantage
Period
Fast
Labouring
Slip
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