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| | Chapter 19 Ebbw Vale |
 | | In that year he applied for a patent having for its object the decarburation of crude iron, by blowing forcibly down upon it in a closed chamber without fuel, instead of blowing up through it, as in my process; this patent, however, was not completed. |
 | | I was the more anxious to do this, as every member of the then Ebbw Vale Company was wholly unknown to me, even by name, except Mr. |
 | | Not that these patents were in themselves worth the paper they were written on, but so long as they existed and were the property of some other persons, they were fighting material, and could be utilised to keep me in the Law Courts possibly for a couple of years. |
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