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iron: Facts & Related Content
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Key People

William Kelly
American inventor

Georgina Hope Rinehart
Australian business executive

Jamsetji Tata
Indian industrialist

Langley George Hancock
Australian mining industrialist

Abraham Darby
British ironmaster

Fritz Thyssen
German industrialist

William Fairbairn
British engineer

John Wilkinson
English ironmaster

René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French entomologist

Christian Lundeberg
Swedish politician

John Roebuck
British physician, chemist, and inventor

Dud Dudley
English ironmaster

Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist

August Thyssen
German industrialist

James Gayley
American metallurgist

John Chipman
American chemist and metallurgist

Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, Jr.
American geologist
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