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40 All About Inventions percentage of this constituent. But, concealing his satisfaction, he turned to the manager again inquiringly. “ Why do you use it ? ” “ To make the furnace work smoothly and the iron fluid, came the immediate response. “ Oh, well, if you will make the pig iron which I desire from straight ore, and without using any puddle cinder, I’ll give you an order right away.” The manager assented, and Bessemer, his peace of mind completely restored by what he had ascer- tained from his personal investigation, returned home to await the first consignment of the raw material prepared to his instructions. The latter was made, and the ironworks, not knowing how to describe the metal upon the invoice, since it was not their particular brand, entered it up after the name of the customer. It was invoiced as “ Bessemer iron.” Strange to say, this name has remained ever since, and to this day Bessemer iron ” is generally known throughout the world as pig iron having a very low phosphorus content. Upon receiving a further supply of this raw material Bessemer repeated his experiment, and, as he had anticipated, the resultant steel was every whit as good and possessed of the self-same char- acteristics as what he had first produced and had exhibited at Cheltenham from “ Blaenavon ” pig. Having subjugated the primary initial difficulty in such a complete manner it was now all plain sailing. Improvements were made from time to time, necessi- tating additional patents, the culmination of which was the production of a perfect steel. He established his works at Sheffield in 1858,