07-17-2019, 02:21 PM
(07-17-2019, 08:40 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Is your backyard Mumbai? Maybe Damascus?
Kentucky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_process
Basically, Kelly moved to Eddyville, Kentucky, studied info from Chinese workers on how to make steel, and set up a way to make it quickly, cheaply and in large quantities... then had it stolen by the English industrialists who were hoping to supply cannons to the government.
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