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  2. Cut steel jewellery - Wikipedia

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    A cut steel hairpin. France served as a major export market but this was interrupted when war broke out 1793. [8] The popularity of cut steel in France may in part have been due to sumptuary laws which limited who could wear precious metals and diamonds. [9] Manufacture of cut steel within France is attested from 1780 and by the start of the ...

  3. History of the steel industry (1850–1970) - Wikipedia

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    Steel is an alloy composed of between 0.2 and 2.0 percent carbon, with the balance being iron. From prehistory through the creation of the blast furnace, iron was produced from iron ore as wrought iron, 99.82–100 percent Fe, and the process of making steel involved adding carbon to iron, usually in a serendipitous manner, in the forge, or via the cementation process.

  4. Metalcut - Wikipedia

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    Page border by Hans Holbein the Younger; revival of the first technique.. Metalcut was a relief printmaking technique, belonging to the category of old master prints.It was almost entirely restricted to the period from about 1450 to 1540, and mostly to the region around the Rhine in Northern Europe, the Low Countries, Germany, France and Switzerland; the technique perhaps originated in the ...

  5. History of the iron and steel industry in the United States

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    The first American steel mill to use the process was constructed in 1865 in Troy, New York. In 1875, the largest-yet steel mill, Edgar Thomson Steel Works in the Pittsburgh area, was built to use the Bessemer process, financed by industrialist Andrew Carnegie .

  6. Steelmaking - Wikipedia

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    In making crucible steel, the blister steel bars were broken into pieces and melted in small crucibles, each containing 20 kg or so. This produced higher quality metal, but increased the cost. The Bessemer process reduced the time needed to make lower-grade steel to about half an hour while requiring only enough coke needed to melt the pig iron.

  7. Metalworking - Wikipedia

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    Metalworking generally is divided into three categories: forming, cutting, and joining. Most metal cutting is done by high speed steel tools or carbide tools. [7] Each of these categories contains various processes. Prior to most operations, the metal must be marked out and/or measured, depending on the desired finished product.

  8. Ferrous metallurgy - Wikipedia

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    Until these 19th-century developments, steel was an expensive commodity and only used for a limited number of purposes where a particularly hard or flexible metal was needed, as in the cutting edges of tools and springs. The widespread availability of inexpensive steel powered the Second Industrial Revolution and modern society as we know it ...

  9. Straight razor - Wikipedia

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    The first steel-edged cutthroat razors were manufactured in Sheffield in 1680. By the late 1680s, early 1690s, razors with silver-covered handles along with other Sheffield-made products known as "Sheffield wares" were being exported to ports in the Gulf of Finland, approximately 1200 miles (1931 km) from Sheffield. From there, these goods were ...