Over the course of the last day alone, four separate people have asked for my comment on an article in The Guardian. It is about some new research suggesting that Henry Cort — one of the classic inventor names of the British Industrial Revolution — stole the iron-making improvements he patented in the early 1780s from “76 black Jamaican metallurgists”, many of them enslaved.
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Age of Invention: Cort Case
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Over the course of the last day alone, four separate people have asked for my comment on an article in The Guardian. It is about some new research suggesting that Henry Cort — one of the classic inventor names of the British Industrial Revolution — stole the iron-making improvements he patented in the early 1780s from “76 black Jamaican metallurgists”, many of them enslaved.