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Historians of the eighteenth century have explored how new consumer goods embodied enlightened ideas. Can a similar case be made for new industrial materials, specifically steel? In the 1700s Britain became the most dynamic centre of steel manufacture in Europe but we contend that explanations linking the development of steel to notions of an Industrial Enlightenment, much invoked in recent literature on British industrialization, are flawed.
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This page is a summary of: An Enlightenment in Steel?: Innovation in the Steel Trades of Eighteenth-Century Britain, Technology and Culture, January 2012, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/tech.2012.0116.
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