Metallic iron was once the stuff of myth, known only in the form of meteorites. Today, in the hardened form of steel, iron is everywhere. What is this metal that is so indispensable to the modern world? Why is it so hard to make? And how did it go from mythical to mundane?
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Bonus: you'll learn what the Bessemer process actually is and why it was such a breakthrough. If you've heard of it, and heard it was important to the Industrial Revolution, but never really knew what it was—this will satiate your curosity and cure your ignorance!
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Plus, at the end, I commented a bit on why it’s important to study and promote human progress, along the lines of what I wrote about here:https://rootsofprogress.org/progress-studies-a-moral-imperative …
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@HiltonTrollip you might enjoy this!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I loved the idea of this and the basic talk was good, but you failed to cash in on all that good work by naming the true cause of progress in our era and hope for the next, namely a well-disciplined rationality. The Bessemer Process wasn't from his mere thinking it was due to ...
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