cutlery steel
metallurgy
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manufacture of cutlery
- In cutlery: Cutlery manufacture
Cutlery steel consists of iron to which from 0.35 to 1 percent carbon has been added. Early methods involved hammering charcoal into red-hot iron bars. In the 18th century Benjamin Huntsman built new types of furnaces in Sheffield for making highly refined steel in clay…
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