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Harry Brearley, stainless steel, Sheffield, Totley, secretary Winifred Beard
December 2010
My permanent address, for the whole of my life, has been Totley Rise, so it's hardly surprising that I've always been interested in past as well as present residents. One always remembers 'characters' and I'm sure that we must sometimes bore friends as we repeat well-worn stories about them - I have often spotted the glazed look!
It has probably never been easier to access information about past notables thanks to the dedicated work of local historians. All of us can do our bit to help. You never know, your vital scrap of knowledge may solve a mystery. There is unlikely to be a free book in it, but you could warrant a footnote in history and that should give you a buzz!
Being born into a family in the cutlery trade, one may expect that the name of Harry Brearley would excite my curiosity. Now in 2010 we are on the countdown to Centennial celebrations of the discovery of stainless steel.
Firstly, articles will appear in 2012 about the successful tackling of problems concerned with the erosion and fouling of rifle barrels and the inner tubes of guns. Harry Brearley's name became a little better known a little later on. Once he had discovered and named st
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The Discovery sign over Stainless Steel
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Grace's Guide To British Industrial History
Harry Brearley (1871-1948) is usually credited with the invention of "rustless steel" (later to be called "stainless steel"), although Krupp filed a patent for its brand of Nirosta a few months before Brearley's breakthrough.
1871 February 18th. Born in Sheffield the son of John Brearley, a steel melter, and his wife Jane Senior.
He left school at the age of twelve to enter employment as a labourer in Thomas Firth and Sons steelworks, being transferred soon afterwards to the post of general assistant in the company's chemical laboratory.
For several years, in addition to his laboratory work, he studied at home and later in evening classes, to specialize in steel production techniques and associated chemical analysis methods.
1891 John Brearley 59, crucible steel furnace melter, lived in Brightside Bierlow, with Jane Brearley 56, Tom Brearley 27,crucible steel furnace melter, Ben Brearley 25, crucible steel furnace melter, Arthur W Brearley 21, crucible steel furnace melter, Harry Brearley 20, pupil, assistant metallurgist, Mary Brearley 17[1]
1895 Married at Sheffield to Helen Theresa Crank
By his early thirties, Brearley had earned a reputation as an experienced professional and for being very astute in