Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . fe as represented in the Egyptian hiero-glyphics. d shows an old Egyptian butcher with his dismem-bering-knife, and his steel stuck into his belt. efg are from Assyrian knives in the British Mu-seum. In the Egyptian museum of the late Dr. Abbott,New York City, arc several of the Egyptian knivesof Ethiopic stone. The operarion of circumcision isnow performed in B
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . fe as represented in the Egyptian hiero-glyphics. d shows an old Egyptian butcher with his dismem-bering-knife, and his steel stuck into his belt. efg are from Assyrian knives in the British Mu-seum. In the Egyptian museum of the late Dr. Abbott,New York City, arc several of the Egyptian knivesof Ethiopic stone. The operarion of circumcision isnow performed in Barbary witli an ordinary pair ofscissors. ] The knives of ancient Egypt were usually of]bronze, though blades of iron and steel were not un-known. Those of the latter metal have seldom, ifever, come down to our times, as they so readilyrust and fall to pieces. They are, however, clearlydistinguished from the bronze by being colored bluein the paintings of Byban el Molouk, the bronze be-ing red or brown. Blue swords (steel) are shown inthe paintings of Thebes. These old knives had tangs like our case-knives,and for the same purpose. .\mong the tirst mentions of knives is that ofAbi-aham, who took his knife to slay his son on Ancient Knives. Moriah. The history of edge-tools would includethe history ol the knife, and would carry one backto the Lacustrians and other remote inhabitants ofthe globe. History opens with nn>n using knivesof metal, but still retaining the Hint knife for sacri-ticial occasions, as in Egyjit, , and among theHebrews. Other isolated races contented tlieni-selves with shells, as among the Caribs ; Obsidianamong the Peruvians, Mexicans ; flint in ancientEnrol le and many other places. The metallicknives weie made of copper, and these were after-wards hardened by the addition of tin, makingbronze. From the time of Osirtasen and Jacob downtothetinieoftheCajsarsand Tliny, bronze maintainedits ascendency, but eventually gave way to iron and
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