The 12 Dragons of Albion Quotes

“steel for centuries, good steel, and they were able to vary the carbon content without ever knowing what carbon was, or even why they needed limestone and charcoal to make iron. They just got on with it. Once atomic theory came along, metallurgy became a proper subject, and that’s when the Bessemer process was discovered, and all that stuff. And no, I haven’t the foggiest idea what the Bessemer process is.’ ‘I do,’ said Helen. ‘My Dad worked”
― Mark Hayden, The 12 Dragons of Albion