After the death of my master I passed over to the service of his worthy partner, Joshua Field. I had an equal pleasure in working under him.
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Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
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