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inventor of the "Sherman" Process
c.1870 Mr. J. E. Sherman, an American steel maker, arrived in Britain to introduce a new process of mauufacture intended to improve inferior qualities of iron. Mr. Sherman started his operation at Chatham, where he worked for the Government[1]
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