Specification of Henry Bessemer : fuel and furnaces.

  • Bessemer, Henry.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Specification of Henry Bessemer : fuel and furnaces. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1849 .N° 12,780. Fuel and Furnaces. BESSEMER’S SPECIFICATION. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Henry Bessemer, of Baxter House, Old Saint Pancras Road, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer, send greeting:. WHEKEAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 5 Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twentieth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in the thirteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Bessemer, my exors, adhiors, and assigns, Her especial 10 license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Henry Bessemer, my exors, adhiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Bessemer, my exors, adhiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, 15 within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of “ Improvements in the Preparation or Fuel, and in Apparatus for Supplying the same to Furnaces;” in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Henry Bessemer, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 20 by an instrument in writing under mv hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear. A