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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
able it was all obtained, by a primitive direct process, from rich and easily reducible ores. The early means for the reduction of iron from the ore were small furnaces with cold blast, in which rich ore was heated in contact with incandescent charcoal, the viscid mass being hammered to remove earthy impurities. This plan is yet practiced in India, Africa, Malaya, Madagascar, and forms the Mass of iron, shapeless from the forge, offered by Achilles as a prize at the funeral games of Patroclus, recorded in Homer's twenty-third book of the Iliad. Dr. Livingston refers to the iron-smelting furnaces of the tribes encountered in his Expedition to the Zambesi. The articles produced by these peoples are hammers, tongs, hoes, adzes, fish-hooks, needles, and spear-heads. King Porus presented to Alexander the Great a wrought bar of laminated steel, for which Damascus was subsequently so famous that it is known as Damascene. One of the most remarkable forgings in the world, if it
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), Q. (search)
rm appears to have existed from time immemorial, among even the most uncivilized nations. The ancient quoit was a heavy circular mass of iron, sometimes perforated in the middle; and the effort was not one of skill, to throw it as nearly as possible to the mark, now called the hob, but to throw it to the greatest possible distance, as in the modern Scotch games of putting the stone or hurling the hammer. Homer mentions the throwing of the du/skos among the sports at the funeral games of Patroclus (Iliad, II., XXIII. See also Odyssey, VIII., XVII.). Sometimes a thong was passed around it to form a handle; in the Cabinet des Antiquites of Paris is preserved a discus with hole for the thumb and fingers. Pindar celebrates the skill of Castor and Iolaus in this exercise. In the British Museum is the famous statue of the discobolus in the act of throwing the discus. Quoit-pitching was a favorite pastime in England. Notices of it are found in 1453. The horseshoe is a common substitut