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Bessemer

[ bes-uh-mer ]

noun

  1. Sir Henry, 1813–98, English engineer: inventor of the Bessemer process.
  2. a city in central Alabama.


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That was one reason why Bessemer Venture Partners leapt at the chance to lead the new financing round for Folx, according to Morgan Cheatham, an investor out of Bessemer’s New York office.

Amazon has said its workers don’t need a union coming between them and the company, and some of the nearly five text messages sent daily to its Bessemer staff urge them not to abandon “the winning team.”

A website created by the union at the start of the organizing drive encouraged Bessemer warehouse workers to sign authorization cards to secure not just better pay but also improved safety.

Amazon needs its workers more than ever, giving them leverage to push for safer warehousesWhen Amazon opened the Bessemer warehouse in March, the company told local media it would employ 1,500 workers, a figure the city echoed on its website.

A website created by the union encourages Bessemer warehouse workers to join the organizing drive to secure not just better pay, but also improved safety standards.

It must have taken no small amount of courage to then present himself in Bessemer the following night.

So, one of the teams wore chain-mail ulsters, and the other wore plate-armor made of my new Bessemer steel.

He was decided to be the first inventor of the process, and a patent was granted him over Bessemer, who was a few days before him.

Another achievement of far-reaching consequences was Captain Henry Bessemer's process for manufacturing steel.

What is almost as remarkable as the enormous increase in the production of Bessemer steel is the great diminution in its cost.

Bessemer claimed that his steel rails would last much longer than the common iron rail then in use.

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