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WITH the discovery of metals, and notably the application of copper and its alloys in Neolithic times, we have one of the great turning points, if not the greatest, in the history of human development, the first-birth of the germs of that civilisation and culture to which we have attained at the present day. The discoveries of the properties of steam and electricity and their applications to our industries and other practical purposes of life we are apt to regard as wonderful and epoch-making, yet when we compare them with the results which have followed the discovery of metals, they are but trifling and insignificant.
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Copper and its Alloys in Early Times 1 . Nature 89, 98–102 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089098a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/089098a0