However, one of his biggest failures was the SS Bessemer, designed to stop passengers feeling seasick. The key feature was a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Perhaps the most famous ship in exploration history, the Fram was designed specifically for the challenges of polar navigation.

September 22, 1856.—The invention for which a patent was granted to Robert F. Mushet on Sept. 22, 1856, was very largely responsible for the immediate success of the Bessemer steel process. By the ...