When Steel Turns to Steam

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The first crack appeared not in iron or rail but in the ledger of a man named Cornelius Ashworth, who in the spring of 1882 discovered that his entire life had been forged from counterfeit ore. He had come to Wall Street twelve years earlier, a raw boy of nineteen fresh from the Allegheny furnaces, carrying nothing but a dented tin lunch pail and a head full of figures. The war had ended, the...

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