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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 31 31 Browse Search
Demosthenes, Letters (ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt) 6 6 Browse Search
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Polybius, Histories 3 3 Browse Search
Demades, On the Twelve Years 2 2 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 Browse Search
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) 1 1 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.) 1 1 Browse Search
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f carbon is small, the metal is termed neild or low steel; high steels are those containing a large proportion of carbon. Steel has been produced, as an experiment, by heating the iron to be converted in contact with diamond. The earliest discovery or invention of steel is in the remote past, but the nature of the change in the iron was not understood. It was prepared by fusion, and not by cementation. It would seem that the distinction between qualities was known and utilized B. C. 335, as the Persian and Damascene sword-blades were then in high repute, and were formed of slips or thin rods of iron and steel, bound together with iron wire and united by welding. The terms used in the original Scriptures are translated iron and steel according to the context. The iron of that day was in fact a steel, being procured by a single or repetitive process from the ore. See iron: malleable iron. He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through