Pittsburg International Session October, 1890 Paper - On the Probable Future of the Manufacture of Iron
- Organization:
- The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
- Pages:
- 22
- File Size:
- 961 KB
- Publication Date:
- Jan 1, 1891
Abstract
WITH the exception of air and water, it is open to question whether there is any form of matter which the human race could less easily spare than iron. Short of going the length of asserting that, without this metal for an anchor or steel for the compass, the adventurous navigator could never have crossed the wide Atlantic, we may credit the locomotive' and the steamer, and hence iron, for that sequence of events which has peopled North America with the
Citation
APA: (1891) Pittsburg International Session October, 1890 Paper - On the Probable Future of the Manufacture of Iron
MLA: Pittsburg International Session October, 1890 Paper - On the Probable Future of the Manufacture of Iron. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, 1891.