Coalbrookdale by Night, by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, depicts a village in Shropshire, England, that was a centre of iron smelting in 1801
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A metallurgical course of that was essential to the Industrial Revolution was invented by Black metallurgists, a lot of whom have been enslaved – and never by British entrepreneur Henry Cort, who took the credit score.
“This innovation is the basis of suspension bridges, iron ship building, textile mills,” says historian of science Jenny Bulstrode at University College London. “This innovation was in fact stolen by Henry Cort.”
Despite his significance to the …
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