The Bessemer process of steel manufacture was perfected at about the same time by Henry Bessemer and, in the United States, by
a. Andrew Carnegie.
b. Benjamin Silliman.
c. William Kelly.
d. Thomas Edison.
e. Oliver Evans.
ANS: C
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