CHAPTER 1 Early days
CHAPTER 2 The reward of invention
CHAPTER 3 Compressing plumbago dust, casting type, type-composing machine, etc
CHAPTER 4 Utrect velvet
CHAPTER 5 The manufacture of bronze powder
CHAPTER 6 Improvements in sugar manufacture
CHAPTER 7 A holiday in Germany
CHAPTER 8 Improvements in glass manufacture
CHAPTER 9 The exhibition of 1851
CHAPTER 10 Early gunnery experiments
CHAPTER 11 The genesis of the bessemer process
CHAPTER 12 The bessemer process
CHAPTER 13 Bessemer steel and colonel eardley wilmot
CHAPTER 14 The bessemer process and the war office
CHAPTER 15 Bessemer steel: the armstrong controversy
CHAPTER 16 Bessemer steel guns
CHAPTER 17 Cast steel for shipbuilding
CHAPTER 18 Manganese in steel-making
CHAPTER 19 Ebbw vale
CHAPTER 20 The bessemer saloon steam-ship
CHAPTER 21 Conclusions