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Darby family
A family of English ironmasters. Abraham Darby (1677–1717) pioneered iron smelting using coke rather than charcoal. His grandson Abraham Darby (1750–1791) built the world's first cast-iron bridge over the Severn River at Ironbridge, Shropshire.
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