. Forging of iron and steel, a text book for the use of students in colleges, secondary schools and the shop . e Hebrews make them swords or spears;and we find that Nebuchadnezzar followed the samecourse among the Jews (II Kings, xxiv, 14), And hecarried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and allthe craftsmen and smiths; none remained, save thepoorest sort of the people of the land. Jeremiah xxiv, 1,also states that Nebuchadnezzar carried away the car-penters and smiths. The extent to which the work of these early smithswas carried can be seen from the following references tothe Old Test
. Forging of iron and steel, a text book for the use of students in colleges, secondary schools and the shop . e Hebrews make them swords or spears;and we find that Nebuchadnezzar followed the samecourse among the Jews (II Kings, xxiv, 14), And hecarried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and allthe craftsmen and smiths; none remained, save thepoorest sort of the people of the land. Jeremiah xxiv, 1,also states that Nebuchadnezzar carried away the car-penters and smiths. The extent to which the work of these early smithswas carried can be seen from the following references tothe Old Testament: Axes, Deut. xix, 5; II Kings vi, 5;stonecutters tools, Deut. xxvii, 5; armor, coats of HISTORIC USE OF IRON AND STEEL mail and weapons of war, I Samuel xvii, 7-38; ironbedsteads, Deut. iii, 11; iron pens, Ezek. iv, 3. Weknow little about the early smiths and their work, ortheir method of working the iron. An Egyptian wallpainting (Fig. 1), probably gives as reliable an idea ascan be found. The fire was built in a slightly depressed place in theground; a forced draft was given to the fires by an at-. r^U
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