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Bronze Powder

Metal

Bronze Powder

Bronze Powder

Powdered metal used to make paints that look like gold or bronze. Although called powdered bronze, these were in fact, brass. The metal was beaten to leaf and then ground by hand to a powder using an organic medium to prevent the flakes sticking. The industry was based in Germany, especially centred at Nuremberg. In 18th century hand manufacture had started in Birmingham, in the early 19th century developed an fully mechanical method of manufacturing bronze powder, about 1840 Henry Bessemer started marketing his powder, under cutting his competitors prices. This provided the financial basis for his experiments for steel production. Thornton, J. 2000,312 – 313