A metallurgical process that was crucial to the Industrial Revolution was invented by Black metallurgists, many of whom were enslaved – and not by British entrepreneur Henry Cort, who took the credit.
Coalbrookdale by Night, by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, depicts a village in Shropshire, England, that was a centre of iron smelting in 1801
“This innovation is the basis of suspension bridges, iron ship building, textile mills,” says historian of scienceDespite his importance to the …
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