Bessemer's cottage
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Bessemer's cottage by Bikeboy as part of the Geograph project.
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Bessemer's cottage
Image: © Bikeboy Taken: 12 May 2013
The blue plaque reads "Sir Henry Bessemer F.R.S.Inventer and Engineer was born here 1813". Bessemer invented his eponymous process for removing carbon from molten iron by blowing oxygen through it.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.938668
Longitude
-0.287365