In the 1850's two inventors began to work on a new way to make steel. William Kelly, an inventor from the United States began working on a way to improve the way steel was produced. The second gentlemen, Henry Bessemer from England began working on a process that soon becamed patented.
Soon after this process was named the Bessemer process. Kellys way was tried in factories, but wasnt too successful. So American steel mills quickly picked up the Bessemer process, which speeded up production of steel. Through the Bessemer process steel had reach an all time low on cost. The steel was alot cheaper than iron, less brittle than the iron way, and mending it was alot eaiser.
Construction Industries soon saw this as a way to improve transportation ways. Soon bigger bridges were being made out of steel, along with taller buildings. With the low cost things such as nails and wire were very affordable for almost all families. By 1873, the United States was a superproducer of steel.
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