Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c24.27
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c24.27
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c24.27
24. The fractured end of a bar of Indian iron presents a very different appearance to that of English, none of the glistering portions being visible, but if not fibrous, it shows the granular fracture of an aggregation of crystalline grains, either large or small, according to the hardness of steel which it contains. The iron thus examined may be separated for different purposes into four different kinds.