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About Thomas Botfield
Thomas Botfield was an English metallurgist, geologist, magistrate and deputy-lieutenant of Shropshire, and inventor of a method of smelting and making iron using the principle of "gas flame or heated air in the blast of furnaces". Botfield's 1828 patent seems to have anticipated most of the elements of the blast furnace as it was used in the 1830s and 1840s.
Everything about Thomas Botfield →- Occupation
- manager, geologist
- Position held
- High Sheriff of Shropshire
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- February 14, 1762
- Died
- January 17, 1843