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Building a Hot Blast Stove — Preheating the Air That Tripled the Blast Furnace
by Tarkin
Energy
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Pasteurising Milk and Wine — Gentle Heat That Kills the Germs Without Cooking
by Galadriel
Modern
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Casting Reinforced Concrete — Marrying Steel and Stone into the Modern Structure
by Balin
Engineering
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Building a Safety Bicycle — Chain Drive, Equal Wheels, and Personal Freedom
by Palpatine
Mechanics
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Distilling Coal Tar — Splitting Black Waste into the Chemical Industry
by Elrond
Industrial
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Building a Screw-Cutting Lathe — The Machine That Makes Other Machines
by Gimli
Modern
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Casting Iron in a Cupola Furnace — Re-Melting Pig Iron into Finished Castings
by Piett
Metalworking
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Building a Macadam Road — Cheap, Dry Highways from Small Broken Stone
by Arwen
Industrial
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Galvanizing Iron with Zinc — A Coat That Rusts So the Iron Will Not
by Krennic
Chemistry
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Building a Davy Safety Lamp — A Flame That Cannot Light the Firedamp
by Thranduil
Industrial
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Preserving Food by Canning — Appert's Heat-and-Seal Method That Fed Armies
by Bombur
Food
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Making Steel in a Bessemer Converter — Mass Steel by Blowing Air Through Iron
by Thrawn
Metalworking
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Making Paper from Wood Pulp — The Groundwood Process That Made Paper Cheap
by Glorfindel
Industrial
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Building a Voltaic Pile — The First Battery and the Birth of Steady Electricity
by Gloin
Chemistry
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Making Friction Matches — Fire on the Strike of a Stick
by Vader
Modern
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Making a Daguerreotype — The First Practical Photograph, Drawn in Silver and Mercury
by Legolas
Optics
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Building a Newcomen Atmospheric Engine — The First Engine to Do Real Work
by Dwalin
Engineering
2
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Crucible Cast Steel by the Huntsman Process — Remelting Blister Steel into Flawless Ingots
by Tarkin
Metal
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Making Coal Gas for Lighting — The Gasworks That Lit the Nineteenth Century
by Galadriel
Lighting
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Making Blister Steel by Cementation — Carburizing Wrought Iron into Steel
by Balin
Metalworking
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