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Thanks Barrie - it's a pleasure! It must have been hellish in the major steel producing cities, with the smoke, dirt, noise of trip-hammers, grinders, dust and hand-hammering - like hell on earth!
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Robert Forester Mushet was indeed the son of David Mushet. David Mushet was born in Dalkeith in October 1772. His father William (with surname spelled 'Muschet') came from Edinburgh, a weaver who...

Good article!

However, Bessemer took the kudos for something which he imperfectly understood. Initially, his process seemed to work well (luckily he had started with an iron ore that included an...