I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery. - "Henry Bessemer"

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.
Henry Bessemer

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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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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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