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Steelmaking
- Blast furnaceA blast furnace operates on the principle of chemical reduction where carbon monoxide converts iron oxides to elemental iron.
- Hot blastJames Beaumont Neilson stood at the Wilsontown Ironworks in Scotland during 1828. He had previously worked as a foreman at Glasgow gas works before turning…
- Puddling (metallurgy)The Eiffel Tower stands as a monument to puddled iron, its lattice structure relying on the malleable metal produced by this process.
- Bessemer processHenry Bessemer filed his first patent application in October 1855, securing the legal rights to his steel-making method a year later.
- Damascus steelThe medieval city of Damascus served as the commercial hub where steel ingots from South India were sold, yet no evidence exists for local crucible…
- Pickling (metal)A worker in South Wales moved sheets of tin through a vat during World War I. This scene captures the early industrial use of pickling to remove surface…