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TO render clear the exact nature of certain modern scientific advances in steel metallurgy it is necessary briefly to consider what is known of the past history of steel, more particularly with reference to cutting implements, whether for the purposes of peace or war. That steel (or, to be more accurate, probably steely-wrought iron) was known to the ancients, say, 3000 years ago, seems to be proved by a passage translated by Pope from the ninth book of Homer's “Odyssey”:—
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Recent Advances in Scientific Steel Metallurgy 1 . Nature 91, 45–49 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091045a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/091045a0