Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things
Rustless steel (Sheffield)
Made by Harry Brearley
1913
Brearley’s chromium steel that did not rust, made in Sheffield.
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Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“On the 13th August 1913 Brearley created a steel”British Stainless Steel Association: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
“On 13 August 1913”University of Sheffield / History Matters / Clare Starkie: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
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