Henry Cort was an English ironware producer who had formerly been a Navy pay agent. During the Industrial Revolution in England he began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron using innovative production systems. In 1784 he obtained a patent for an improved version of Peter Onions's puddling process for refining cast iron, although its commercial viability was only realised in the 1790s through further innovations introduced by Richard Crawshay and Homfray of the Cyfarthfa Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil.
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Henry Cort (c. 1740-23 May 1800) was an English ironware producer who was formerly a Navy pay agent.
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Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron (or bar iron) using innovative production systems.
Invented: Puddling Furnace, Article body
Cort developed his ideas at the Fontley Works (as he had renamed Titchfield Hammer) resulting in a 1783 patent for a simple reverberatory furnace to refine pig iron followed by a 1784 patent for his puddling furnace, with grooved rollers which mechanised the formerly laborious process.
In Field: Metallurgical Engineering, Introduction
During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron (or bar iron) using innovative production systems.
Invented: Puddling Process, Lead paragraph
he obtained a patent for an improved version of Peter Onions's puddling process, for refining cast iron
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Modern rolling practice can be attributed to the pioneering efforts of Henry Cort of Funtley Iron Mills, near Fareham in Hampshire, England.
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