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[[File:Bas fourneau.png|thumb|left|upright|[[Bloomery]] smelting during the [[Middle Ages]]]] Steel was known in antiquity, and may have been produced by managing [[bloomery|bloomeries]], iron-smelting facilities, where the bloom contained carbon.<r

Wrought iron is so named because it is worked from a [[Bloomery|bloom]] of porous iron mixed with slag and other impurities. The word "wrou ...of the eighteenth century, wrought iron was made using charcoal, by the [[bloomery]] process, in a [[finery forge]] or from the industrial revolution in a [[L

...re. These oxides are the principal ores for the production of iron (see [[bloomery]] and [[blast furnace]]). They are also used in the production of [[Ferrite ...n but more than wrought iron) was first produced in antiquity by using a [[bloomery]]. Blacksmiths in [[Luristan]] in western Iran were making good steel by 10