David Mushet
From Graces Guide
- It was to Clyde Iron Works that David Mushet came, at the age of 19 in 1791, as a clerk in the Accounts Branch. He became interested in metallurgy and was allowed to carry out experiments in his spare time.
- He later moved to the Calder Iron Works, then to Derbyshire, and in 1810 to Coleford in the Forest of Dean.
- David Mushet was the father of Robert Foster Mushet, an even more famous metallurgist who improved the Bessemer process and went on to develop tool steels, wear resistant rails and other steel alloys.
- David Mushet contributed many valuable papers on the nature of metals and also discovered the native Black Band ironstone in North Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Stirlingshire that later helped lead to the meteoric rise in the Scottish Iron industry, particularly in the Coatbridge area. This was primarily lead by the invention of the hot blast process at Clyde Iron Works, in 1828, by the Glasgow engineer, James Beaumont Neilson, which transformed the cost of iron production.
- 1855 A number of letters published by DM
See Also
Sources of Information
- Mechanics Magazine Volume LXIII (63) 1855 Pt2
- [1] Clydebridge Steel Work history