The Bessemer Process - Steel is cheap enough that you can make buildings, vehicles, and bridges out of it. Notably things like boilers and trains. The isolatio

The Bessemer Process - Steel is cheap enough that you can make buildings, vehicles, and bridges out of it. Notably things like boilers and trains. The isolation of elements and the development of the periodic table - All of modern chemistry comes from this. Synthetic materials, modern metallurgy. Plastics - Used basically everywhere. Semiconductors - Basis of computing