Bessemer's converter sees first commercial use
1858* · Event
After the Bessemer process is made workable in 1858 — by Göransson in Sweden and at Bessemer's own Sheffield works — commercial Bessemer steel production begins; steel rails gradually replace iron over the next decades.
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