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Henry Bessemer, an Uncommon card
Sir Henry Bessemer was an English inventor, whose steel-making process was the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 128
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 41,000
Power 128 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Henry Bessemer quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Henry Bessemer card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
This made steel easier, quicker and cheaper to manufacture, and ______ structural engineering.
Answer
revolutionised. This made steel easier, quicker and cheaper to manufacture, and revolutionised structural engineering. From the Henry Bessemer article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Norman Hartnell. Norman Hartnell 74 · Zhu Xi 71 · Thomas Schelling 68 · Henry Bessemer 65 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He played a significant role in establishing the town of Sheffield, nicknamed ‘Steel City’, as a major industrial centre.
- Bessemer had been trying to reduce the cost of steel-making for military ordnance, and developed his system for blowing air through molten pig iron to remove the impurities.
- This made steel easier, quicker and cheaper to manufacture, and revolutionised structural engineering.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Henry Bessemer article was read about 41,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Henry Bessemer
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Henry Bessemer (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
