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2024-01-19 21:19:47 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 001566772335790F792D3119D2ACF9985597E14482728ED585D8F1D05C80C9A5
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It's racist rubbish. Henry Cort stole his process from Jamaican metallurgists: "An innovation that propelled Britain to become the world’s leading iron exporter during the Industrial Revolution was appropriated from an 18th-century Jamaican foundry, historical records suggest." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industrial-revolution-iron-method-taken-from-jamaica-briton
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