 | Theophilus Charles Noble - 1889 - 96 páginas
...writer justly observes that no one should fail to consider the origin, history, and value of iron ; that our instruments of cutlery, the tools of our mechanics,...to innumerable uses in the economy of human life. The use of iron is identified with the time of erecting the Egyptian monuments, the oldest in the world,... | |
 | Theophilus Charles Noble - 1889 - 112 páginas
...justly observes that no one should fail to consider the origin, history, and value of iron ; that onr instruments of cutlery, the tools of our mechanics,...to innumerable uses in the economy of human life. The use of iron is identified with the time of erecting the Egyptian monuments, the oldest in the world,... | |
 | 1836 - 610 páginas
...earth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces, and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct...ancient than the fuel, by the aid of which we reduce :t to its metallic state, and apply it to innumerable uses in the economy of human life. Thus, from... | |
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We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces, and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct species, which were swept from the earth ere the formation of the transition strata was completed. Our... 
