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TIL English industrialist stole iron technique from Black metallurgists (www.newscientist.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

A metallurgical process that was crucial to the Industrial Revolution was invented by Black metallurgists, many of whom were enslaved โ€“ and not by British entrepreneur Henry Cort, who took the credit.

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