The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . y wasgranted a patent. It is now not doubted thatwhile the two men independently and separatelydiscovered the principle, Kellv was aliead ofBessemer some eight or nine years in his dis-coverj. Kelly was in the iron business in Eddy-ville, Ky., in 1S46, refining iron in an old-fashioned refinery, to make kettles used in themanufacture of sugar. He was an , but a poor business man. An inspirationcame to him one day while watchin
The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . y wasgranted a patent. It is now not doubted thatwhile the two men independently and separatelydiscovered the principle, Kellv was aliead ofBessemer some eight or nine years in his dis-coverj. Kelly was in the iron business in Eddy-ville, Ky., in 1S46, refining iron in an old-fashioned refinery, to make kettles used in themanufacture of sugar. He was an , but a poor business man. An inspirationcame to him one day while watching theprogress of his refinery, on noticing that at acertain place where the Mast of iron happenedto play on the molten iron direct without the intervention of any fuel, it became white hotand boiled violently. He inimediatelv realizedthe revolutionary nature of his discovery andhis knowledge of metallurgy easily furnishedhim with the explanation, namely that the im-purities in the iron were as fuel, and bytheir combustion increasing the temperature ofthe iron. On speaking of his hopes he was metwith derision, but proceeded to make a public. \ i
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