Bessemer may refer to Bessemer process , a method of making steel Henry Bessemer , the inventor of the Bessemer process SS Bessemer , a Victorian experimental paddle steamer Place names In Canada Bessemer, Ontario In the United States Bessemer, Alabama Bessemer Airport Bessemer Civic Center Bessemer, Colorado Bessemer, Michigan Bessemer Township, Michigan Bessemer City, North Carolina Bessemer, Pennsylvania disambiguation , several places Bessemer Bend, Wyoming Fictitious town in Upstate New York in David Stout s novel The Night of the Ice Storm Other uses Bessemer Historical Society in Pueblo, Colorado Bessemer Trust , a wealth management and investment advisory firm Bessemer Venture Partners , a global venture capital and growth equity firm Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad , a major carrier of iron ore to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Lindsay Goldberg & Bessemer , a private equity investment firm associated with Bessemer Securities Bessemer was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, formerly named Rougemont before 1898. disambig surname geo Category German language surnames ca Bessemer de Bessemer fr Bessemer it Bessemer nl Bessemer no Bessemer pl Bessemer pt Bessemer sl Bessemer sv Bessemer vo Bessemer ... more details
Bessemer, Pennsylvania may refer to Bessemer, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Bessemer, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania Bessemer, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania geodis ... more details
Bessemer City may refer to Bessemer City, North Carolina List of shipwrecks in 1936 SS Bessemer City , a ship wrecked near St. Ives, Cornwall in 1936. disambig ... more details
Bessemer, Colorado was a city in Colorado that was incorporated in 1886. ref http www.citytowninfo.com places colorado pueblo ref It was one of four adjacent towns settled after the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859 . ref http www.puebloconventioncenter.com 200 PuebloHistory.asp ref The communities of South Pueblo, Colorado South Pueblo , Central Pueblo, Colorado Central Pueblo , Pueblo, and Bessemer were later merged to create the modern City of Pueblo, Colorado . ref http www.pueblo.us cgi bin gt tpl page.html,template 1&content 742&nav1 1& ref Bessemer was an independent city until 1894 and was the last city to join Pueblo. ref http www.puebloconventioncenter.com 200 PuebloHistory.asp ref The former community of Bessemer is sometimes now referred to as the Bessemer neighborhood. References reflist coord missing Colorado Category Neighborhoods in Colorado Category Pueblo, Colorado ... more details
Bessemer Trust is a wealth management and investment advisory firm established in 1907 by Henry Phipps , a partner of Andrew Carnegie in the Carnegie Steel Company . From 1907 to 1974 the private company managed the substantial assets of the Phipps family and was headed by a family member. It has been ranked by FundFire who date April 2011 as the number one private wealth management firm in the United States ref http www.bessemer.com portal binary com.epicentric.contentmanagement.servlet.ContentDeliveryServlet Public Published News Recent 2520Articles BT Fundfire July2007.pdf article from Bessemer on investment rankings ref In 1974, Bessemer Trust Company s developed expertise allowed it to take on other clients through the creation of a national bank headquartered in New York City . In 1985, the business expanded to the Cayman Islands and the following year opened an office in London , England . In the mid 1990s, Bessemer Trust opened California branch offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco then in 2001 in Dallas , Texas . The current Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bessemer Trust is the great grandson of Henry Phipps, Stuart S. Janney, III , who succeeded Ogden Mills Phipps in 1994. Lindsay Goldberg & Bessemer In 2001, Bessemer Trust entered into a partnership with Morgan Stanley s Alan Goldberg to form Lindsay Goldberg & Bessemer , a middle market private equity firm. Prior to the founding of LGB, Bessemer Trust s Robert Lindsay was responsible for making private equity investments. References reflist External links official http bessemer.com Category Banks based in New York City Category Companies established in 1907 es Bessemer Trust ... more details
refimprove date November 2011 Infobox person name Henry Bessemer image Henry Bessemer.jpg image size caption birth name Henry Bessemer birth date Birth date 1813 1 19 df y birth place Charlton, Hertfordshire , England ref http www.lucidcafe.com library 96jan bessemer.html Sir Henry Bessemer Inventor ... English known for Development of the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel. occupation engineer and inventor Sir Henry Bessemer 19 January 1813 15 March 1898 was an English engineer, inventor, and businessman. Bessemer s name is chiefly known in connection with the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel. Anthony BessemerBessemer s father, Anthony, was born in London, but moved to Paris ... in 1813. Early inventions The invention from which Henry Bessemer made his first fortune was a series ..., ref http www.history.rochester.edu ehp book shb start.htm Bessemer s autobiography ref he examined ... link last2 first2 author2 link title Famous Inventors Sir Henry Bessemer magazine The Meccano Magazine ... his other inventions. Bessemer patented a method for making a continuous ribbon of plate glass in 1848 ... in design of furnaces, which was to be of great use for his new steel making process. Bessemer process Main Bessemer process Image ConverterB.jpg thumb left 400px Bessemer converter File Bessemer 5180.JPG right thumb Bessemer converter, Kelham Island Museum , Sheffield, England 2010 . Henry Bessemer worked on the problem of manufacturing cheap steel for the purposes of ordnance production ... page 218 ref On 24 August 1856 Bessemer first described the process to a meeting of the British Association ... in The Times . The Bessemer process involved using oxygen in air blown through molten pig iron to burn ... the project after hearing Bessemer at the meeting. Bessemer, however, acknowledged the efforts ... was then about to retire. ref cite journal title The Development of the Bessemer Process in Lancashire ... widely substituted for cast iron . Bessemer s attention was drawn to the problem of steel manufacture ... more details
Cooper Bessemer refers to the Cooper Bessemer Corporation and the Cooper Bessemer brand of industrial engines and compressors, manufactured in Mount Vernon, Ohio . The Cooper Bessemer Corporation was formed when C. & G. Cooper founded in 1833 and the Bessemer Gas Engine Company founded in 1899 merged in 1929. In 1965, the company was renamed to Cooper Industries and relocated to Houston, Texas . ref name cooper cite book author Keller, David N. title Cooper Industries 1833 1983 edition publisher Ohio University Press year 1983 isbn 0 8214 0751 1 ref In the 1990s, Cooper Industries Petroleum and Industrial Equipment Group was spun off to become Cooper Cameron Corporation, known today as the Compression Systems group of Cameron International Corporation . ref http c a m.com content company history.cfm&bunit cs Cameron History ref File It s a horse on you, Adolph. NARA 534815.tif left thumb World War II poster promoting Cooper Bessemer engines. In 1929, Cooper Bessemer products included gas engine driven compressors, stationary and marine diesel engines and gas engines. During World War II, Cooper Bessemer contributed heavily to the war effort by manufacturing diesel engines for troop and cargo ships as well as warships, tugboats, rescue, and patrol boats. Cooper Bessemer gas engines were widely used in the production of rubber, alloys, light metals, high octane aircraft fuel, synthetic ammonia for munitions, and in refineries, chemical plants, shipyards and petroleum pipelines. ref name cooper From the 1920s to the 1980s, the company manufactured thousands of Cooper Bessemer integral ... of Cooper Bessemer engines continue to operate today. Cameron International Corporation is the OEM and current owner of the Cooper Bessemer product line. ref http www.c a m.com Forms Product.aspx?prodID 8f7b416d 40f8 4f54 a3de b03d6ca01cef Cooper Bessemer Integrals ref References references External ... Cooper Bessemer Integrals Category Companies established in 1833 Category Manufacturing companies based ... more details
Bessemer Park is a public park in Chicago , Illinois , United States of America U.S.A. Created in 1904, it was named for Henry Bessemer , the inventor of the Bessemer process eponymous steelmaking process . ref name CPD cite web title Bessemer Park url http www.chicagoparkdistrict.com index.cfm fuseaction parks.detail object id f11ddd43 0f42 4bd4 b501 31e55ec34718.cfm work Parks & Facilities publisher Chicago Park District accessdate 4 October 2009 ref The name is appropriate, since Chicago s most productive steel mill, the U.S. Steel Southworks , was located just a mile away. The park was created by the South Park Commission as part of a new neighborhood park system in Chicago. Living conditions for immigrants in search of the American dream had become intolerable because of overcrowding. Most people didn t own cars. Other parks were too far away. Park superintendent J. Frank Foster conceived a new type of parkland for population dense areas parks providing breathing spaces and a host of other amenities, from public bathing to organized recreation. The Olmsted Brothers and the architects Daniel H. Burnham and Co. were engaged to design the entire park system, including Bessemer Park. ref name CPD Today Bessemer Park boasts a gated and beautifully landscaped nature garden planted with a wide variety of native flowering trees, shrubs and forbs. References reflist coord 41.7325 87.5570 type landmark region US IL display title Category Parks in Chicago, Illinois ... more details
Infobox settlement official name Bessemer settlement type City image skyline imagesize image caption image seal image map Jefferson County Alabama Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Bessemer Highlighted.svg ... http www.bessemeral.org Bessemer is a city outside of Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham in Jefferson ... Bessemer is located at Coord 33 23 29 N 86 57 24 W type city 33.391343, 86.956569 , GR 1 about convert ... is land and convert 0.1 sqmi km2 0.17 is water. Bessemer is situated in the midst of the iron ore ... Bessemer was the vision of industrialist Henry Fairchild DeBardeleben . At age 30 DeBardeleben came ... DeBardeleben decided to rename the city Bessemer in honor of Sir Henry Bessemer , the British scientist ... around the country began to look at Bessemer as a possible site for relocation. DeBardeleben founded one of the first buildings in the city in 1887, the Bessemer Land and Improvement Company. The company ... more than 4,000 people in Bessemer. The 1880 census placed Bessemer s population as eighth in the state ... years afterward. Bessemer s rapid growth in its early days led to the nickname of The Marvel City , a moniker which still finds occasional use today. The citizens of Bessemer voted to incorporate the city on September 9, 1887 and elected R. M. McAdory as the first mayor. Government Bessemer uses ... County courthouse is located in downtown Bessemer. This practice hails from the special county government district known as the Bessemer Cutoff , established in the middle of the 20th Century when Bessemer was a major city in its own right the Cutoff even had a separate series of Alabama license plate s, with a different numeric prefix than the rest of the county. Bessemer s status in that respect has largely been supplanted by other Birmingham suburbs such as Hoover, Alabama Hoover , but Bessemer retains its own branch courthouse to this day, and the term Bessemer Cutoff remains in everyday usage by area residents. Economy In 1900 Bessemer ranked eighth in population in the state, second ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Bessemer Cocktail Type studio Artist Global Goon Cover Bessemer Cocktail.jpg Released May 2005 Recorded Genre Electronic music Electronic , Acid house Length Label W M Records Producer Global Goon Johnathon Taylor Last album Junior Glue br 2004 This album Bessemer Cocktail br 2005 Next album Pure Rock br 2005 Bessemer Cocktail is an album by Global Goon , released in 2005. There is a turn in style and genre from his previously releases, with new acid house influences. It only available on LP record LP , no official CD is available. Track listing A1. Doesn t Sound Like Me A2. Great Strong Sword A3. Screaming Skull A4. Just Tell The Truth B1. Metal Cheetah B2. Croggoths Of Amour B3. I Actually Gots Ya B4. Charney For The Love Of The World External links http www.discogs.com release 434218 Bessemer Cocktail entry at Discogs Category 2005 albums Category Global Goon albums 2000s electronic album stub ... more details
Infobox Airport name Bessemer Airport image Bessemer Airport.jpg caption National Agriculture Imagery Program NAIP aerial image, 2006 IATA not EKY ICAO KEKY FAA EKY type Public owner City of Bessemer operator city served Bessemer, Alabama location if different than above elevation f 700 elevation m 213 coordinates coord 33 18 45 N 086 55 35 W region US AL type airport scale 10000 website r1 number 5 23 r1 length f 6,007 r1 length m 1,831 r1 surface Asphalt stat year 2010 stat1 header Aircraft operations stat1 data 102,600 stat2 header Based aircraft stat2 data 99 footnotes Source Federal Aviation Administration ref name FAA FAA airport ID EKY use PU own PU site 00157.1 A . Federal Aviation Administration. Effective 29 July 2010. ref Bessemer Airport airport codes KEKY EKY, nobold formerly 2A3 is a city owned public use airport located three nautical miles 6 km southeast of the central business district of Bessemer, Alabama Bessemer , a city in Jefferson County, Alabama Jefferson County , Alabama , United States . ref name FAA According to the FAA s National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009 2013, it is FAA airport categories categorized as a reliever airport ref http www.faa.gov airports planning capacity npias National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009 2013 http www.faa.gov airports planning capacity npias reports media 2009 npias 2009 appA part1.pdf Appendix A Part 1 PDF, 1.33 MB . Federal Aviation Administration. Updated 15 October 2008. ref for the Birmingham .... ref cite web url http www.gcmap.com airport KEKY title Bessemer Airport ICAO KEKY, FAA EKY publisher Great Circle Mapper accessdate 1 August 2010 ref Facilities and Aircraft Bessemer Airport covers ... received funding to expand the runway from convert 5700 ft m 0 . Bessemer Airport also has ... stories 2004 09 06 focus1.html Bessemer Airport as an alternative to Birmingham International ... EKY US airport minor EKY Category Airports in Alabama Category Bessemer, Alabama Category Buildings ... more details
selfref For the 20th century Victory ship, see SS Bessemer Victory . Infobox ship begin Infobox ship image Ship image Ship caption Infobox ship career Hide header Ship name SS Bessemer Ship owner Bessemer Steamship Co Ltd Ship operator Ship registry flagicon UK civil Ship route Ship ordered Ship builder Earle s Shipbuilding , Hull Ship original cost Ship yard number 197 Ship way number Ship laid down Ship launched 24 September 1874 Ship completed April 1875 Ship christened Ship acquired Ship maiden voyage April 1875 Ship in service Ship out of service May 1875 Ship identification United Kingdom Official Number 70698 ref name Miramar Ship fate Scrapped 1879 Ship status Ship notes Infobox ship characteristics Hide header Header caption Ship class passenger ferry Ship tonnage GRT 1,974 first short ... Ship propulsion 4 paddle wheels Ship speed Ship capacity Ship crew Ship notes The SS Bessemer also called the Bessemer Saloon was an experimental Victorian era Victorian English Channel cross Channel ... Bessemer Sir Henry Bessemer , intended to combat seasickness . Background Bessemer, a severe seasickness ... controlled by a steersman watching a spirit level, Bessemer set up a Joint stock company limited ... 250,000 capital, financing the construction of a ship, the SS Bessemer , with the naval constructor Edward James Reed as chief designer. ref name bessemer The Bessemer Saloon Steam Ship, Chapter XX, Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S., An Autobiography ref Construction The SS Bessemer was a 4 paddle ... gilt moulded panels with hand painted murals. ref name bessemerBessemer was built by Earle ... Bessemer ascribed it to insufficient time to fix the previous damage . ref name bessemer The ship ... 801 2 ref References Primary reference http www.history.rochester.edu ehp book shb hb20.htm The Bessemer Saloon Steam Ship , Chapter XX, Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S. An Autobiography , http www.history.rochester.edu ehp book shb online at University of Rochester . reflist LCDR Ships DEFAULTSORT Bessemer ... more details
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron . The process is named after its inventor, Henry Bessemer , who took out a patent ... William Kelly . ref cite encyclopedia title Bessemer process encyclopedia Britannica volume 2 pages ... Bessemer converter.jpg right thumb 300px Bessemer converter, schematic diagram The process using a basic refractory lining is known as the basic Bessemer process or Gilchrist Thomas process after the discoverer Sidney Gilchrist Thomas . Details Image Bessemer Converter PSF .jpg 250px right thumb Bessemer converter components. Oxidation The oxidation process removes and skims off impurities such as silicon ... is used in the acid Bessemer , in which there is low phosphorus in the raw material. Dolomite is used when the phosphorus content is high in the Base chemistry alkaline Bessemer limestone or magnesite ... are added, depending on the desired product. A Bessemer converter can treat a heat batch of hot metal of 5 to 30 tonnes at time http www.steeltalk.com bessemer convertor.php . They usually were operated ... Station Square fountain.jpg left thumb Bessemer converter at Station Square , Pittsburgh . Before the Bessemer process, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Britain had no practical method ... 20 kg or so. This produced higher quality crucible steel but increased the cost. The Bessemer ... only the coke needed to melt the pig iron initially. The earliest Bessemer converters produced ... Bessemer 5180.JPG right thumb Bessemer converter, Kelham Island Museum , Sheffield, England 2010 ... impact on the quantity and quality of steel production. Sir Henry Bessemer described the origin of his ... technology and Bessemer himself developed a method for grooving artillery projectiles so that they could ... started Bessemer thinking about steel. At the time steel was difficult and expensive to make and was consequently ... he filed his first patent related to the Bessemer process. According to his autobiography Bessemer ... more details
Infobox settlement official name Bessemer, Michigan settlement type City nickname motto Images image skyline 2009 0617 downtown Bessemer.jpg imagesize image caption Downtown Bessemer image flag image seal Maps image map Gogebic County Michigan Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Bessemer Highlighted.svg mapsize 250px map caption Location of Bessemer, Michigan image map1 mapsize1 map caption1 Location coordinates region US MI subdivision type List of countries Country subdivision name United States subdivision type1 Political divisions of the United States State subdivision name1 Michigan subdivision type2 List of counties in Michigan County subdivision name2 Gogebic County, Michigan Gogebic Government government footnotes government type leader title leader name leader title1 leader name1 established title established date Area unit pref Imperial area footnotes area magnitude area total km2 14.2 area land km2 14.2 area water km2 0.0 area total sq mi 5.5 area land sq mi 5.5 area water ... www.bessemer.org www.bessemer.net footnotes Bessemer is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan . As of the United ... of Gogebic County, Michigan Gogebic County GR 6 . The city is situated within Bessemer Township, Michigan Bessemer Township , but is politically independent. It is on U.S. Route 2 in Michigan US 2 with Ironwood ... within a few miles of Bessemer. Cross country skiing and snowmobiling are also very popular ... . History Bessemer was incorporated in 1884 as copper mining started growing throughout the Gogebic ... 250px Bessemer City Hall, Public Library and Fire Hall. As of the census GR 2 of 2010, there were ... Airport MSP with Delta Connection . References Reflist External links commonscat inline NIE Poster Bessemer Michigan Bessemer year 1905 Gogebic County, Michigan Coord 46 28 53 N 90 03 11 W type city region ... Category County seats in Michigan de Bessemer Michigan es Bessemer M chigan fr Bessemer Michigan nl Bessemer Michigan pt Bessemer Michigan ro Bessemer, Michigan vo Bessemer Michigan ... more details
Infobox settlement name Bessemer official name settlement type Unincorporated community nickname motto Images image skyline imagesize image caption image flag image seal Maps pushpin map Virginia pushpin label position the position of the pushpin label left, right, top, bottom, none pushpin map caption Location within the Commonwealth of Virginia pushpin mapsize image map map caption Location within Botetourt county image map1 mapsize1 map caption1 Location subdivision type List of countries Country subdivision name United States subdivision type1 Political divisions of the United States State subdivision name1 Virginia subdivision type2 List of counties in Virginia County subdivision name2 Botetourt County, Virginia Botetourt government footnotes government type leader title leader name leader title1 leader name1 established title established date Area unit pref Imperial area footnotes area magnitude area total km2 area land km2 area water km2 Population population as of United States Census, 2000 2000 population footnotes population total population density km2 auto General information timezone Eastern Time Zone Eastern EST utc offset 5 timezone DST EDT utc offset DST 4 elevation footnotes elevation ft coordinates display inline,title coordinates type region US type city latd 37 latm 38 lats 49 latNS N longd 79 longm 48 longs 40 longEW W Area postal codes & others postal code type ZIP code s postal code area code blank name Federal Information Processing Standard FIPS code blank info blank1 name Geographic Names Information System GNIS feature ID blank1 info website footnotes Bessemer is an unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia Botetourt County , Virginia , United States . ref name gnis gnis 1494181 ref References reflist Botetourt County, Virginia Category Unincorporated communities in Virginia Category Populated places in Botetourt County, Virginia Category Roanoke metropolitan area BotetourtVA geo stub ... more details
The Bessemer Historical Society in Pueblo, Colorado operates the Steelworks Museum of Industry and Culture , site of the company archives for Colorado Fuel and Iron . The Bessemer Historical Society takes its name from the community of Bessemer, Colorado , site of the Colorado Coal and Iron Company Colorado Coal and Iron Bessemer Works which was named after the Bessemer process for making steel invented by Henry Bessemer . ref name Creating Colorado cite book last Wyckoff first William title the making of a western American landscape, 1860 1940 year 1999 pages 147 ref Colorado Coal and Iron Company merged with Colorado Fuel Company to form Colorado Fuel and Iron in 1892. ref name Creating Colorado ref name Regulating danger cite book last Whiteside first James title Regulating danger the struggle for mine safety in the Rocky Mountain coal Industry publisher University of Nebraska Press year 1990 pages 8 ref References Reflist Category Non profit organizations based in Colorado ... more details
unreferenced date August 2008 The Western Star is a weekly newspaper published in Bessemer, Alabama . It is owned by Trib Publications, a regional chain based in Manchester, Georgia . Their website is http www.thewesternstarnews.blogspot.com DEFAULTSORT Western Star, The Category Newspapers published in Alabama Category Bessemer, Alabama Alabama newspaper stub ... more details
Infobox nrhp name Southern Railway Terminal Station nrhp type image Southern Railway Depot, 1905 Alabama Avenue, Bessemer Jefferson County, Alabama .jpg caption Southern Railway Depot location 1905 Alabama Ave., Bessemer, Alabama lat degrees 33 lat minutes 24 lat seconds 4 lat direction N long degrees 86 long minutes 57 long seconds 1 long direction W coord display inline,title locmapin Alabama built 1916 architecture added February 28, 1973 area less than one acre governing body Private refnum 73000348 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref The Bessemer Hall of History is a museum located in, and devoted to the history of, the city of Bessemer, Alabama . The museum is housed in the former Alabama Great Southern Railroad later Southern Railway US Southern Railway railroad station depot in downtown Bessemer. The depot, built by the AGS in 1916, served passengers until the Amtrak era began in the early 1970s. The building sat unused for several years, but was reopened by the city of Bessemer in 1985, and officially rededicated during the city s centennial observance in 1987. The museum houses a wide array of artifacts from the city s history as a mining , steel making, and industrial center. The museum building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The Hall of History is open Tuesdays through Saturdays, 9 00 a.m. noon and 1 00 4 00 p.m. Bessemer is located in Jefferson County, Alabama , between Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Alabama Tuscaloosa . References reflist External links http www.bhamrails.info bess hall hist.htm BhamRails.com Bessemer Hall of History Birmingham Landmarks National Register of Historic Places Category Buildings and structures completed in 1916 Category National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Alabama Category Bessemer, Alabama Category Museums in Jefferson County, Alabama Category History museums in Alabama Category Mining museums in Alabama US museum stub Alabama struct stub ... more details
Infobox Company company name Bessemer Venture Partners company logo Image Bessemer venture partners logo.JPG 224px Bessemer Venture Partners company type Limited liability company foundation 1911 key people location Menlo Park, California , United States industry Venture Capital products Investments assets homepage http www.bvp.com www.bvp.com num employees Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley , New York , Massachusetts , Israel , China , and India . Bessemer Venture Partners is the longest standing venture capital practice in the United States. Between 1911 and 1975, the team operated as part of Bessemer Trust Bessemer Securities Corporation , established in 1911 to invest Henry Phipps s share of the proceeds from the sale of Carnegie Steel . Since 1975, Bessemer Venture Partners has operated as a standalone partnership with Bessemer Securities Corporation as its primary limited partner. Since its inception, BVP has provided capital to such companies as http www.criteo.com Criteo , Ciena Corporation , Flarion , Knewton , Parametric Technology Corporation , Skype , Staples Inc. , VeriSign and VERITAS Software . Of this group, over 100 Bessemer companies have gone public, including American Superconductor , Ciena Corporation , Gartner , Ingersoll Rand , International Paper , Maxim Integrated Products , Parametric Technology Corporation Parametric , Perseptive Biosystems, Staples, Inc. , VeriSign , Veritas Software , Shriram EPC , and W. R. Grace and Company . Other notable companies in BVP s current portfolio include Diapers.com , Yelp, Inc. , Avalanche Technology , Reputation Defender , Yodle, Inc Yodle , Ziff Davis Enterprise , Zoosk , LifeLock , Hunch website Hunch , and LinkedIn . Other notes Bessemer Venture Partners ... section date July 2010 External links http www.bvp.com Bessemer Venture Partners official website ... in 1911 US private equity company stub fi Bessemer Venture Partners ... more details
for the Victorian experimental steamship SS Bessemer Infobox Ship Begin Infobox Ship Image Ship image Ship caption Infobox Ship Career Hide header Ship country Ship flag USN flag 1945 Ship name SS Bessemer Victory Ship namesake Ship ordered Ship builder California Shipbuilding Corporation , Terminal Island , Los Angeles Ship laid down 28 May 1945 Ship launched 26 July 1945 Ship sponsor Ship christened Ship completed Ship acquired Ship commissioned Ship decommissioned Ship decommissioned Ship in service Ship out of service Ship renamed Ship reclassified USNS Bessemer T AG 186 , 1 February 1966 Ship refit Ship struck Ship reinstated Ship homeport Ship motto Ship nickname Ship honors Ship fate Scrapped, 1991 Ship status Ship notes Infobox Ship Characteristics Hide header Header caption Ship type Victory ship Ship displacement convert 4512 LT t 0 lk in abbr on light br convert 15589 LT t 0 abbr ... on gun bow br 8 Oerlikon 20 mm cannon 20 mm machine guns Ship armor Ship notes SS Bessemer Victory was one of 534 Victory ship s built during World War II . Named for Bessemer, Alabama , an industrial city honoring Sir Henry Bessemer the Englishman who invented a Bessemer process steel manufacturing process , she was one of 218 such ships that were named after American cities. Bessemer Victory ... MSTS for cargo carrying service during the Vietnam War , she was assigned the name USNS Bessemer ... was cancelled however, she did carry cargo to Vietnam as Bessemer Victory under a commercial charter . Returned to the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Bessemer Victory remained in the Maritime ... was scrapped in 1991 at Alang, India . References DANFS cite web title Bessemer Victory work Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships url http www.history.navy.mil danfs b5 bessemer victory i.htm accessdate April 4, 2007 cite web title T AG 186 Bessemer work Amphibious Photo Archive url http www.navsource.org archives 09 49 49186.htm accessdate April 4, 2007 DEFAULTSORT Bessemer Victory Category ... more details
Infobox settlement official name Bessemer City, North Carolina settlement type City nickname City with a Heart ... doton BessemerCity.PNG mapsize 250px map caption Location of Bessemer City, North Carolina image ... feature ID blank1 info 0981053 GR 3 website footnotes Bessemer City is a small Suburb suburban city ... in 1893. Geography Bessemer City is located at coord 35 17 3 N 81 16 58 W type city 35.284262, 81.282853 .... Elevation convert 904 ft m . History Bessemer City is named for Sir Henry Bessemer who created the Bessemer Process for smelting iron. Bessemer City was founded on land purchased from the Ormand family, near the Sloan Washington Ormand Iron Furnace. Ironically, it was the Bessemer Process which made Bessemer City s early iron smelting industry obsolete. The earliest European settlement in the Bessemer ... 83 entry North Carolina History Project Bessemer City , based on Charllotte Crawford, Hilda Gunst, Enid Kiefer, and Elizabeth Thornburg, eds., Centennial 1893 1993 Bessemer City, North Carolina ... when the Bessemer process made small furnace operations uneconomical . The Old Furnace is still ... Bessemer City, was considered a great engineering accomplishment. ref name NCHistory John Wooten built a general store next to the railroad on the site of present day Bessemer City and called the store ... to incorporate the town. On March 6, 1893, Bessemer City was officially chartered. Smith hired W.R. ... of Bessemer City at the time of its charter was very small, with only a few families ..., Robert and Max Goldberg as well as the Ragan Spinning Company, gave Bessemer City its industrial foundation. ref http www.bessemercity.com history.html History of Bessemer City , Bessemer City official ... Irish, 2.0 Dutch, 1.7 For population 25 years and over in Bessemer City High school or higher 68.6 ... age 65 or over. Business and Industry One of the largest industries in Bessemer City is http ... manufacturer in the country, operates a convert 50000 sqft m2 sing on facility in Bessemer City employing ... more details
The Bessemer Civic Center is a concert hall performing arts and convention center located in Bessemer, Alabama , a Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham suburb. The Civic Center s main hall features convert 13000 sqft m2 2 of main space. A mezzanine measuring convert 4415 sqft m2 0 overlooks the main hall and can be used for additional seating for events as well as dancing and banquets. The main hall features a 45 by 37 foot permanent stage. When used for concerts , boxing , or wrestling , the Civic Center can seat up to 2,000 1,600 in the main hall, 400 in the mezzanine using retractable risers as a banquet facility the main hall seats 1,000. Conventions and trade shows are also held at the main hall. There are also four meeting rooms totaling convert 5850 sqft m2 0 of space at the Civic Center. External links http www.birminghamal.org pam fac bcc.html Bessemer Civic Center at Birmingham Convention and Visitors Bureau Alabama stub coord 33 23 14.3 N 86 59 45.95 W region US display title Category Concert halls in the United States Category Convention centers in Alabama Category Indoor arenas in the United States Category Sports venues in Alabama Category Bessemer, Alabama Category Buildings and structures in Jefferson County, Alabama ... more details
Infobox settlement official name Bessemer Bend, Wyoming settlement type Census designated place CDP nickname motto Images image skyline imagesize image caption image flag image seal Maps pushpin map Wyoming pushpin label position left the position of the pushpin label left, right, top, bottom, none pushpin map caption Location within the state of Wyoming pushpin mapsize image map mapsize map caption image map1 mapsize1 map caption1 Location subdivision type List of countries Country subdivision name United States subdivision type1 Political divisions of the United States State subdivision name1 Wyoming subdivision type2 List of counties in Wyoming County subdivision name2 Natrona County, Wyoming Natrona Government government footnotes government type leader title leader name leader title1 leader name1 established title established date Area unit pref Imperial area footnotes area magnitude area total km2 4.0 area land km2 4.0 area water km2 0.0 area total sq mi 1.6 area land sq mi 1.6 area water sq mi 0.0 Population population as of United States Census, 2000 2000 population footnotes population total 170 population density km2 42.1 population density sq mi 109.0 General information timezone Mountain Time Zone Mountain MST utc offset 7 timezone DST MDT utc offset DST 6 elevation footnotes elevation m 1596 elevation ft 5236 coordinates display inline,title coordinates type region US type city latd 42 latm 45 lats 30 latNS N longd 106 longm 31 longs 12 longEW W Area postal codes ... GNIS feature ID blank1 info 1853197 GR 3 website footnotes Bessemer Bend is a census designated place ... census . Geography Bessemer Bend is located at coord 42 45 30 N 106 31 12 W type city 42.758340, 106.519884 ... references External links http wyoshpo.state.wy.us trailsdemo bessemerbend.htm Bessemer Bend Natrona ... places in Wyoming ca Bessemer Bend es Bessemer Bend Wyoming it Bessemer Bend nl Bessemer Bend pt Bessemer Bend ru vo Bessemer Bend ... more details
Infobox SG rail railroad name Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad logo filename Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad logo.png logo size 175 old gauge marks BLE locale Ohio and Pennsylvania start year 1897 hq city Homewood, IL The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Reporting mark BLE is a class II railroad that operates in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio . The railroad s main route runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania , a distance of 139 miles. The original rail ancestor of the B&LE, the Shenango and Allegheny Railroad , began operation in October 1869. Rail operations were maintained continuously by various corporate descendants on the growing system that ultimately became the B&LE in 1900. In 2004 the B&LE came under the ownership of the Canadian National Railway as part of CN s larger purchase of holding company Great Lakes ... left 1925 2045 1933 807 1944 2675 1960 1318 1970 2462 The Pittsburgh, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad ... the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad in 1900. Carnegie Steel had an exclusive 999 year lease to the PS&LE ... at the end of 1970 mileages were 220 and 489. In 1988 the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad became part ... formerly subsidiaries of USX, the holding company that owns U.S. Steel. In 2001 the Bessemer & Lake ... Railway acquired the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad. Iron ore and coal are still the route s major ... North Bessemer Yard. CSX Transportation CSX formerly the Erie Lackawanna Railroad connects at Shenango ... shops are located , and then climbs back up to Kremis, en route to Fredonia and North Bessemer. The B&LE ..., converting it to an open cut through a hill. As it approaches Bessemer, the B&LE is also noticeable where it crosses the Allegheny River on the convert 2327 ft Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Bridge ... railroads DEFAULTSORT Bessemer Lake Erie Railroad Category Ohio railroads Category Pennsylvania ... Predecessors of the Canadian National Railway fr Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad ... more details
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