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History of Technology. Vol. 12. pp. 1–39. ISBN 0-7201-2075-6. K. C. Barraclough,
Steel before Bessemer I:
Blister Steel: The
Birth of...
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diffusion of carbon. Huntsman's
process used iron and
steel as raw materials, in the form of
blister steel,
rather than
direct conversion from cast iron as...
- box. This
produced blister steel. The
blister steel was put in a
crucible with
wrought iron and melted,
producing crucible steel. Up to 3 tons of (then...
- to melt the
steel. The
early modern crucible steel industry resulted from the
invention of
Benjamin Huntsman in the 1740s.
Blister steel (made as above)...
- melt iron fully, the
production of
steel in
decent quantities did not
occur until the
introduction of
blister steel during the
Middle Ages. This method...
- the
steel could be
improved by ****goting,
producing the so-called
shear steel. In the 1740s,
Benjamin Huntsman found a
means of
melting blister steel, made...
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forging of
wrought iron,
blister steel, and
other steel. ****goting is a
process in
which rods or bars of iron and/or
steel are
gathered (like a bundle...
-
establish an iron forge. The most
common processes for
creating blister steel and
crucible steel were slow and
extremely expensive. The
Scrantons instead used...
- at high temperatures. This
would decrease its
usefulness in
making blister steel (cementation),
where the
speed and
amount of
carbon absorption is the...
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Although Europeans had been
making steel for
nearly three centuries, the
processes for
creating blister steel and
crucible steel were slow and
extremely expensive...
