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Henry Cort 1740-1800, English inventor. He revolutionized the British iron industry with his use of grooved rollers to finish iron, replacing the process of hammering, and through his invention of the puddling process. This process, called puddling, involved stirring the molten pig iron in a reverbatory furnace until the decarburizing action of the air produced a loop of pure metal.

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Cort, Henry (1740–1800). Cort was born at Lancaster, son of a mason. His interest in the production of iron developed after the Russians had raised their prices. By 1784 he was able to patent an invention for ‘puddling’ iron to make it malleable. With Adam Jellicoe he entered into large naval contracts, but Jellicoe's death in 1789 revealed fraud, which brought Cort down. During the last years of his life, he existed on a small pension.

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