The production of steel during the British Industrial Revolution became cheaper and more reliable thanks to the Bessemer converter, a type of blast furnace that removed undesirable impurities from pig iron. The superior strength and durability of steel over iron meant that the metal took over as the preferred choice of civil engineers to build bridges, tunnels, and railway tracks.
This is exactly one of the jokes I was gonna have in the evil themed store I made up when I was a kid. Because for some reason when I was a kid I made up an elaborate idea for a real store that would have an evil theme.
Other gimmicks were that buying a machete came with a hockey mask discount and that there would be a pet section but it would stock exclusively scorpions.
