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I looked this up for you. The Bessemer process was the first affordable industrial process for the production of massive amounts of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace. The process is named after its inventor,Henry Bessemer, who had the process patented in 1855. The process was earlier discovered in 1851 by William Kelly. The process had been known and used outside of Europe in the past but not on an industrial scale. The key to the process is removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation with air being blown through the molten iron. The oxidation increases the temperature of the iron mass and keeps it molten.

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