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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (27989)4/23/2008 12:42:51 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 71588
 
Yes good steel was for a long time an expensive specialty item. It would be used when needed (mostly for sword making in ancient and mid-evil times). Steel started to become a lot more common in the 1700s, so its days as a rare specialty item where gone before the Bessemer process but that process started its serious mass production.

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