"blown out" after a blast was called a campaign; the length of a campaign always attracted much attention. In the days when a furnace could go bad in a day or two, an endurance record of two years was a newsworthy event. Lacking modern knowledge of chemistry, early ironmasters and their employees tended

puddlers until it became a "spongy, plastic mass impregnated with the liquid slag.'" Quality of the iron depended on the skill and experience of the puddler— the "aristocrat" among rolling mill employees) The pasty iron was gathered into a large ball after one and three-quarter hours of puddling, and put

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