 | 1840 - 474 pages
...Indian steel. There is no evidence to shew that any of the nations of antiquity besides the HindiS* were acquainted with the art of making steel. The...of steel, but they appear to have been altogether ignor.int of the mode in which it was prepared from iron. The arms unJ cutting instruments of the ancients... | |
 | Iron and Steel Institute - Iron industry and trade - 1912 - 798 pages
...steel. The references which occur in the Greek and Latin writers on this subject served only to better their ignorance of it ; they were acquainted with...of the mode in which it was prepared from iron. The edges of cutting instruments of the ancients were all formed of alloys of copper and tin, and we are... | |
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... steel. There is no evidence to show that any of the nations of antiquity besides the Hindus were acquainted with the art of making steel. The references which occur in Greek and Latin writers on this subject, served only to better their ignorance... 