Assertion: iron | /r/CapableOf | meet demand
Facets:
value: for machinery
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: For a short time, puddling furnaces were able to provide enough iron to meet the demands for machinery, but once again blast-furnace capacity raced ahead as a result of the Scotsman James Beaumont Nielsen’s invention in 1828 of the hot-blast stove for preheating blast air and the realization that a round furnace performed better than a square one.