Henry Cort

[RichardB]

http://www.henrycort.net/26furor1850s.htm

Extract :

That the whole blaze of the prosperity of the world, wealth to the amount of thousands of millions sterling, has been created, within little more than half a century, by the inventions of one single man;

that he was deliberately and perseveredly hindered from reaping any other reward but loss from his labours by the acts of official authority, in no barbarous times, but within the memory of living men;

and that these injuries, so artfully aided by designing men, hoodwinked or bewildered a committee of the House of Commons, presided over by a future President of the Royal Society, into a report upon the circumstances so utterly absurd and false...

these are the facts now brought before the country by the papers of Mr. Richard Cort, that deeply-injured man's surviving son.