In what year did English inventor Henry Bessemer die: 1884, 1897, 1898 or 1906?

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Sir Henry Bessemer (19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898) was an English inventor whose steel-making process became the most important technique for producing steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years.

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