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Harry Brearley was an English metallurgist, credited with the discovery of "rustless steel". Based in Sheffield, he enabled affordable cutlery for the masses, and an expansion of the city's traditional cutlery trade.
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business · English metallurgist (1871–1948) · inventor · metallurgist · engineer · entrepreneur · also Harry Brearley, Brearley
Born 18 February 1871 · Died 14 July 1948 · Q470651
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In the Sheffield University Varsity Brewing Challenge, Sheffield University named their beer, brewed by Thornbridge, Brearleys, to commemorate 100 years since Harry Brearley invented stainless steel
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In the Sheffield University Varsity Brewing Challenge, Sheffield University named their beer, brewed by Thornbridge, Brearleys, to commemorate 100 years since Harry Brearley invented stainless steel
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Died 1948-07-14.
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Brearley created a charitable trust The Freshgate Trust Foundation, a grantmaking charity operating in Sheffield and South Yorkshire
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Of a stainless steel which even today is probably the widest-used alloy of this type, the so-called "18/8", which in addition to chromium, includes nickel (Ni) in its composition (18wt% Cr, 8wt% Ni)
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Following disagreements regarding patent rights, but the research continued under the direction of his successor, Dr W
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When two of Sheffield's principal steelmaking companies innovatively agreed to jointly finance a common research laboratory (Brown Firth Laboratories) that Harry Brearley was asked to lead the project
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Born 1871-02-18.
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