Peter Onions
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Peter Onions (1724 – 1798) was an English ironmaster and the inventor of an early puddling process used for the refining of pig iron into wrought iron.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Onions was born in Broseley, Shropshire, later moving to Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. He married Elizabeth Guest, sister of John Guest, a founder of Guest, Keen and Nettlefold, which is today the British conglomerate GKN[1] In 1783, Onions received patent number 1370 for his invention.[2] Henry Cort later improved on Onion's process during the development of his puddling furnace.[3]
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