Great prejudice was excited against me by the ironmasters and others of that day in presuming to class the WILD COALS of the country (as Black Band was called) with ironstone fit and proper for the blast furnace.
And then came the great flood, which swept away his works; the hostile ironmasters now hoping that there was an end for ever of Dudley's pit-coal iron.
Acting on these views, the efforts of the ironmasters had always been directed to the cooling of the blast, and various expedients were devised for the purpose.
The ironmasters even appealed to King James to put a stop to Dud's manufacture, alleging that his iron was not merchantable.
In this he was a good deal hampered even by thoseironmasters who were his friends, and had promised him the requisite opportunities for making a fair trial of the new process.
The more that the remaining ironmasters became straitened for want of wood, the more they were compelled to resort to cinders and coke made from coal as a substitute.
He was held in great respect and esteem by all contemporaries, except rivalironmasters and political opponents.
The large ironmasters are continually struggling to maintain it so.
The ironmasters meet, say at Wolverhampton or at Dudley.
In the week after every legal quarter day the ironmasters of South Staffordshire perambulate the district to hold what they call their quarterly meetings, and to arrange what the price of iron shall be for the ensuing quarter.
Their monopoly, therefore, makes the Dudley ironmasters Tories by habit and Tories by position.
The self-interest, therefore, of these ironmastersinduces them to go with the owner of the soil, and obliges them to submit to the coercion of the steward.
Sir Horace St. Paul worked his own mines, and the ironmasters regarded him with some jealousy, as a rival in their business.
They had done this without even consulting the ironmasters of any other country.
The American ironmasterswere now dumping on the British market.
Champion describes a meeting in the fall of 1851 with "two or three practical Ironmasters and others" at which Kelly described his process and invited all present to see it in operation.
In Bessemer's early days, it was arranged that he should attend a meeting of ironmasters at Birmingham to explain his new process.
On the morning of his lecture two eminent ironmasters were breakfasting together in a Birmingham hotel when one exclaimed to the other, "What do you think, there is a fellow coming here to-day to tell us how to make steel without fuel.
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