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Joseph Hall (1789–1862), the inventor of 'Wet Puddling', was born in 1789 and apprenticed in 1806 as a puddler to use Henry Cort's puddling process. He tried adding old iron to the charge of the puddling furnace and later puddler's bosh cinder (iron scale, that is rust) to the charge. This caused the charge (to his surprise) to boil violently. When this subsided he gathered the iron into a puddle ball in the usual way, and this proved to be good iron. In 1830, with the financial support of others he established the Bloomfield Ironworks at Tipton, the firm becoming Bailey, Barrows and Hall in 1834. In 1838, he patented the use of 'bulldog' (roasted tap cinder) to protect the iron bottom plate of the puddling furnace (Patent no.7778 21 August 1838). In 1849, he moved to small house at Handsworth but continued to visit the works occasionally. He died there in 1862. Further reading R. A. Mott, 'Dry and Wet Puddling' Trans. Newcomen Soc. 49, (1977–8), 156–7. W. K. V. Gale, The Black Country Iron Industry (Iron and Steel Institute, London, 1966), 66–9. 19th-century British inventors Hall, Joseph (Metallugist) 1789 births 1862 deaths People from Handsworth, West Midlands

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“So little in his purse, so much upon his back.”
— Portrait of a Poor Gallant.
“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”
— Epistles, Decade III, epistle 2. Compare: "And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb./Our birth is nothing but our death begun", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night v., line 718.
“There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.”
— Contemplations, Book VI, "The Veil of Moses". Compare: "Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear", Thomas Gray, Elegy, stanza 14.
“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”
— Christian Moderation, introduction.
“He is wealthy enough, that wanteth not: he is great enough, that is his own master: he is happy enough, that lives to die well.”
— Three Centuries of Meditations and Vowes century III, LIX.
“How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.”
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 532.

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“So little in his purse, so much upon his back.”
— Portrait of a Poor Gallant.
“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”
— Epistles, Decade III, epistle 2. Compare: "And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb./Our birth is nothing but our death begun", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night v., line 718.
“There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.”
— Contemplations, Book VI, "The Veil of Moses". Compare: "Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear", Thomas Gray, Elegy, stanza 14.
“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”
— Christian Moderation, introduction.
“He is wealthy enough, that wanteth not: he is great enough, that is his own master: he is happy enough, that lives to die well.”
— Three Centuries of Meditations and Vowes century III, LIX.
“How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.”
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 532.

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