Essay heading: Abraham Darby Bio
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Other ironmasters soon followed Darby's lead, but found that the process was not so easy to adapt. It was later learned that Darby's coal supply, from Cumbria, just happened to have a lower than normal sulphur content, which was key to producing quality iron. Ironmasters slowly adapted the blast furance process with the introduction of various types of flux that cleaned out the impurities in the coal, and by the mid-1700s iron production had shot up... displayed 300 characters
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Ironmasters slowly adapted the blast furance process with the introduction of various types of flux that cleaned out the impurities in the coal, and by the mid-1700s iron production had shot up.
Abraham Darby II (1711-1763) followed in his father's footsteps at the foundry at Coalbrookdale. There, he refined techniques for producing wrought iron from pig iron and produced the iron for Thomas Newcomen's steam engines, replacing the more expensive brass cylinders... displayed next 300 characters
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