History of the Manufacture of Iron in All Ages : And Particularly in the United States from Colonial Time to 1891

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This is the second, much expanded 1892 edition of James M. Swank's influential history of the rise of iron manufacturing around the world, originally published in 1884. Organised chronologically, the book begins by describing iron use in ancient Egypt and finishes by examining its manufacture in late nineteenth-century America.