CHAPTER VII.

THE INVENTIONS OF HENRY CORT.

Parentage of Henry Cort

Becomes a navy agent

State of the iron trade

Cort's experiments in iron-making

Takes a foundry at Fontley

Partnership with Jellicoe

Various improvers in iron-making: Roebuck, Cranege, Onions

Cort's improved processes described

His patents

His inventions adopted by Crawshay, Homfray, and other ironmasters

Cort's iron approved by the Admiralty

Public defalcations of Adam Jellicoe, Cort's partner

Cort's property and patents confiscated

Public proceedings thereon

Ruin of Henry Cort

Account of Richard Crawshay, the great ironmaster

His early life

Ironmonger in London

Starts an iron-furnace at Merthyr Tydvil

Projects and makes a canal

Growth of Merthyr Tydvil and its industry

Henry Cort the founder of the iron aristocracy, himself unrewarded

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