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  * Bernal, John Desmond, Science and Industry in the Nineteenth Century, Indiana University Press, 1970.
  * D’Costa, Anthony P. The Global Restructuring of the Steel Industry: Innovations, Institutions, and Industrial Change London: Routledge, 1999
  * Hasegawa, Harukiyu. The Steel Industry in Japan: A Comparison with Britain 1996 
  * Landes, David S., The Unbound Prometheus: Technical Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2003)
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