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What role in the early industrial revolution did Abraham Darby have?

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Coke method

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Darby was an English Quaker whose main role in the industrial revolution was to develop a new method of pig iron production by using coke to melt iron. Before they only used charcoal to burn iron, which was a procedure that involved cutting many trees to produce it. With the use of coke, the smelting was faster.

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