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Bruno - I meant that the crucible process had been used in ancient times in Southern India and Ceylon, and that Huntsman did not discover the process, but rather rediscovered or resurrected it in a...

Not only that Richard, but the war crossed the Atlantic to the States, mainly because the British Navy were forcibly impressing US citizens into the navy. The US would have preferred to stay out of...

Zach - you really should'nt have taken Googles word for the date, which is often wrong and probably based on the OCR version, but instead should have referred to the frontispeice of the document...

Originally we were looking for the cost of a razor in 1815. Thanks to Martin we have a good reference for 1820, but we are overlooking something of an order of magnitude - the effects on the British...

I know that this process was used by razor cutlers, but they were not allowed to use it by the Cutlers Guild, which can be dated back to 1416 in London (The Worshipful Company of Cutlers) and the...

T'was indeed the Royal Navy, first uttered by Winston Churchill in 1913 when he was apointed First Lord of the Admiralty. The admirals did not like this appointment, and accused Winnie of impugning...

Prices from the 1700s seem not to have survived, though I suppose there must be lists somewhere. One way of going about hazarding a guess i by seeing how much people in that era were paid, and what...

I am not sure at all about that.

Blister steel was made from wrought iron. In the cementation process, wrought iron rods were packed in ovens with sources of carbon (eg "cement powder") in...