The Brown-Firth research laboratory in Sheffield, England, is most commonly credited as the “inventor” of stainless steel, a metal primarily used as a heat resisting or corrosion resisting material.
Listed below are all 4 groups of stainless steels: austenitic, ferritic, martensitic, and precipitation hardened (PH).
These include the 200 Series, 300 series, 400 series, 500 series, and PH Grades.