1913

Harry Brearley, 1913

English metallurgist was working on the prevention of erosion of gun barrels when he took his first stainless steel ingot out of his electric furnace in Sheffield. A chance discovery that revolutionised not only the cutlery and kitchenware industry, but countless other industries.

As a child, he would sit in the corner of dirty, smoky workshops, or on a pile of coal, covered in soot and in silence for hours on end, watching fuel being shovelled into furnaces, and the pouring of white-hot iron and the hammering that followed!

First known as rustless steel

it soon became known as stainless steel.