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Black Metallurgists, Iron And The Industrial Revolution
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:10:58
Publish Date: 2023-08-07 04:10:31
Description: The ability to create wrought iron cheaply has been called one of the most significant innovations in the British Industrial Revolution. It's known today as the Cort process, named after British banker Henry Cort, who patented the technique. But Dr. Jenny Bulstrode, a historian at University College London (UCL), found that Cort stole the innovation from 76 Black enslaved ironworkers in Jamaica.
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