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Cyfarthfa at a time of falling prices; Crawshay called his men together and warned them of the consequences of persisting in their demands; but as they would not yield the furnaces were one by one put out. Soon after came the revolution in the iron trade, leading to the discarding of iron for steel through the invention of the Bessemer and Siemens processes, and the thorough extinction of the old-fashioned trade of the Crawshays and the Guests.
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