Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c24.30
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c24.30
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3rd. Nearly all granular and steely, resisting the file in some parts, and brittle, breaking with one or two blows of the sledge. Fit for lathe bars and iron work in mathematical instruments, where hardness is requisite to prevent bruising.