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IT may be considered singularly fortunate and appropriate that the forthcoming meeting of the British Association in Glasgow exactly coincides with the centenary of James Beaumont Neilson's epoch-making invention of the use of hot-blast in iron smelting, which was first conceived and demonstrated in that city. For it inaugurated a century of continuous advance in scientific fuel economy, and may be said to have done for iron-smelting what Richard Arkwright's inventions had previously done for cotton-spinning.
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BONE, W. The Centenary of James B. Neilson's Invention of Hot-Blast in Iron Smelting. Nature 122, 317–319 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122317a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122317a0