ThomasPowers Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Late 13th Century AD, Anatolia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544032100203X?dgcid=author Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Good info, thanks for the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 9, 2021 Author Share Posted December 9, 2021 I'm sort of following the gradually creeping area and dates for crucible steel with Huntsman in England in the 1700's as being an endpoint. I have a copy of Dr Feuerbach's thesis on Merv mentioned in the notes/bibliography and one on the Monsoon winds powered smelters in Sri Lanka also mentioned. We've definitely broken the Y1K barrier on Crucible steel just during my lifetime. This sort of thing fuels my "don't brag about being first to do something as you are one find from losing that; brag about being *best*!" (Some countries are very jingoistic that they were the *first* to do something; then a find turns up and they argue against plan facts that show that maybe their work was derivative...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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