Walter Weldon
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Walter Weldon (1832-1885)
Engineer, of 29 The Cedars, Putney, London, SW. (1870).
1864 Weldon succeeded in industrialising the method of regenerating dioxide discovered by C. T. Dunlop, by inventing a device that could accomplish the reaction in a blast furnace by reintroducing the non-decomposed products into the cycle.<ref> 'A History of Technology and Invention - Progress through the Ages - The Expansion of Mechanization: 1725-1860' Edited by Maurice Daumas, translated by Eileen B. Hennessy, Crown Publishers Inc. First published in France in 1968 as 'Histoire Générale des Techniques', Chapter by Maurice Daumas, pp.569-9
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