Puddling furnace

History of Steel

By MattCraigie
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    History of Steel

  • Discovery of Coke/Blast Furnace

    Discovery of Coke/Blast Furnace

    by Abraham Darby
  • Puddling Furnace

    Puddling Furnace

    by Henry Cort
  • Bessemer Process

    Bessemer Process

    by Henry Bessemer

  • Steel Prices Drop

    Steel becomes readily available thanks to Carnegie

  • First Electric Arc Furnace

    Offered a new method to create steel, but used electricity to produce steel.

  • Basic Oxygen Steel Making

    Rendered all previous iron making techniques obsolete