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January 19, 1891. Robert Forester Mushet died.—The son of the discoverer of the black-band ironstone, Mushet made experiments on spiegeleisen—iron and manganese—which proved of great value in the development of the Bessemer process of steel-making. He also investigated alloys of iron with titanium, tungsten, and chromium, and about 1870 introduced the first of the self-hardening steels.
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S., E. Calendar of Industrial Pioneers. Nature 109, 93 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109093a0
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