Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c24.31
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c24.31
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4th. All granular, with the fine snow-white fracture of cast steel in parts. Only touched by the file in some parts. Very brittle unless annealed. Hard, and resists the hammer in forging, drawing out with difficulty, and cracking slightly at the edges unless carefully forged. Fit for plough shares, spades, and pickaxes, bricklayers’ trowels, & c. which require to be hard.