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Show INVENTORS HAD LAST LAUGH. Steel Making by Bessemer Process Was Ridiculed at First, The s" f"iU'"l lieshoiner process of niuVhiA steel b lnj"ethm air blasts Into molten lion was discovered llrst by an . American named Kelly, and known as Ills air boiling process. Atter the tiou workers lind neon It done, the) Hit) I would not bolleve It. "Souut t'i'iink'll lie biiruluc Ice, next tlilliK." they said Some ot his icustoineis, when they heard about It, wrote Kelly that they wanted their lion made either In the tegular way, and not by ttny new-fangled method, or not st all. When the Jhst blat was so strong that It melted thn Iron, tho spectators roared with laughter at what they called "Kelly's tin-works," and laughed laugh-ed for ten y vis at IiIh "foil) ." When Henseinor Introduced hla process to the llritltm lion makers, they, too, iimrml with laughter at the "cr.ny Frei Julian," and would not :allow. Urn "silly Idea" to ho mentioned Ia thalr icoouU. Tho- stout rail proposition excited only derisions "Hash! BturCI Hum. bust Xonsemm!" said tho railroad dh cetera whoii It wan proposed to thorn. Hut after oiio road haJ tried It, tho steol mills could not, keep up with-tho orders sent In. The Sunday Msgarluo, MMSisiMif.y "i ''.HBf'll'i'.'lJ'MpMttHMKBI |