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The Industrial Revolution Abraham Darby 1678-1717 First Metallurgical Laboratory 1702 Casting iron in sand moulds 1707 Smelting iron with coke 1710
Abraham Darby was an English ironmaster and chemist who pioneered the use of coke instead of charcoal for smelting iron in 1709, a breakthrough that significantly advanced the Industrial Revolution. His innovations at the Darby family's Quakers' Meeting House in Bristol laid the foundation for large-scale iron production and influenced the development of the iron and steel industries in Britain.
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