A circa 1930s image of a man puddling iron in a British iron foundry and extracting the puddled ball from the furnace. The procdess of Puddling is a step in the manufacture of high-grade iron using a crucible or furnace, invented in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. Bar iron could be produced without without charcoal and replaced the earlier potting & stamping,charcoal use and bloomery processes.

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Photo credit: © Colin Waters / Alamy / Afripics
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