ember 19, 1870). [83] See below, p. 45. The exact date of the purchase of Mushet's patent is not known. [84] _Engineering_, 1882, vol. 33, p. 114. The deal was completed in 1863. [85] _The Engineer_, 1864, vol. 18, pp. 405, 406. [86] _Mining Journal_, 1864, vol. 34, pp. 77 and 94 (italics supplied). It has not yet been possible to ascertain if this company was successful. Mushet writes from this time on from Cheltenham, where the company had its offices. Research continues in this interesting aspect of his career. The year 1865 saw Mushet less provocative and more appealing; as for instance: "It was no fault of Mr. Bessemer's that my patent was lost, but he ought to acknowledge his obligations to me in a manly, straightforward manner and this would stamp him as a great man as well as a great inventor."[87] [87] _Mining Engineer_, 1865, vol. 35, p. 86. But Bessemer evidently remained convinced of the security of his own patent position. In an address before the British Association at Birmingham in September 1865 he made his first public reply to Mushet.[88] In his long series of patents Mushet had attempted to secure-- almost every conceivable mode of introducing manganese into the metal.... Manganese and its compounds were so claimed under all imaginable conditions that if this series of patents could have been sustained in law, it would have been utterly impossible for [me] to have employ
