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English: Barn on the Lairdmannoch Estate The Neilsen monument can be see in the background.
James Beaumont Neilson was born in 1792 in Shettleston, near Glasgow. In 1828 he patented his hot-blast furnace process where waste hot air from the iron smelting process is passed back into the furnace The use of the hot-blast tripled iron output per ton of coal, permitted iron to be recovered from lower-grade ores, and made possible the efficient use of raw coal instead of coke and allowd for the construction of larger smelting furnaces. His patent made him considerably wealthy and be bought the estaste of Queenshill in Dumfries & Galloway where he died in 1865. His son, Walter Montgomerie Neilsen erected the pyramid shaped monument located on Barstobrick Hill in 1883. NX6860 The inscription reads: 'Neilsen's Hot Blast 1828' and '1883 WMN Facit' (made it). |
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