>The first component of what was to become US Steel opened in 857 I'm such an idiot that I read that and didn't even think it was a typo. I was really impresse

>The first component of what was to become US Steel opened in 857 I'm such an idiot that I read that and didn't even think it was a typo. I was really impressed that the company had lasted that long, with that belief propped up by the fact that steel itself by far predates the Roman Empire. Sure, the steelmaking process we use now is pretty new, but battles in Ancient China and Rome were fought using steel weapons.