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Alexander Lyman Holley

American metallurgist and mechanical engineer
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July 20, 1832, Lakeville, Conn., U.S.
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Jan. 29, 1882, Brooklyn, N.Y. (aged 49)
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Alexander Lyman Holley (born July 20, 1832, Lakeville, Conn., U.S.—died Jan. 29, 1882, Brooklyn, N.Y.) was an American metallurgist and mechanical engineer. For the steelmaker Corning, Winslow & Company, he bought U.S. rights to the Bessemer process in 1863 and designed a new plant in Troy, N.Y.—the first in the United States to begin steel production by the Bessemer process. He made significant improvements in the converter, and he designed numerous large steelworks in Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Missouri, among other locations.

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