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Why was the development of the Bessemer process important to Great Britian's Industrial Revolution?

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It was important because it enabled countries to make steel cheaply and this was then used to make better tools and better machinery and it enabled the industry to prosper. This forced them to become imperialistic in order to get more resources to increase the scope of the revolution even more.
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Answer: it enabled railroad companies to build rails out of steel instead of iron

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