Sir Henry Bessemer, inventor and engineer AstroTurf One or the other can

One or the other can be raised to let through a ship while traffic is diverted to the alternative route

A common council man

a 'Great Gogle Ey'd Beetle' ('Carabus Indiae Orientalis maximus')

View of the flotilla on the Serpentine

taken from Albion Place

Sir Henry Bessemer, inventor and engineer AstroTurf One or the other canSir Henry Bessemer, inventor and engineer, 1881. Bessemer (1813 1898) was a prolific inventor, but is best known for discovering the Bessemer Process for manufacturing steel, which made the cheap production of steel in bulk possible for the first time. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock