. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ONE SECOND TWO MINUTES LATER. A Piece of Iron Two Thousand YearsOld. S. T. Wcllman, tlie well known metallur-gist, of the Wellman-Scaver EngineeringCo., Cleveland, lias a portion of a roundbar of iron—and a few like pieces are heldin the United Stales—that antedates theChristian era by two or three iron, which had been originally ham-mered into plates, and was deeply rustedfrom age, was found a few years ago byDr. Karl Humann, in the ruins of theTemple of Artemis Leucophryne at Mag
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ONE SECOND TWO MINUTES LATER. A Piece of Iron Two Thousand YearsOld. S. T. Wcllman, tlie well known metallur-gist, of the Wellman-Scaver EngineeringCo., Cleveland, lias a portion of a roundbar of iron—and a few like pieces are heldin the United Stales—that antedates theChristian era by two or three iron, which had been originally ham-mered into plates, and was deeply rustedfrom age, was found a few years ago byDr. Karl Humann, in the ruins of theTemple of Artemis Leucophryne at Mag-nesia, Asia Minor. Dr. Humann sent itto Hallbaucr in Germany and the lattermade from a portion of it a memorial tab-let. This was presented to Bismarck inApril, 1894. It bore this inscription, inGerman: For you. Prince Bismarck, theiron chancellor, Hermogenes forged thisiron at Magnesia, 200 B. C. Humannfound it in the Temple of Artemis after2,000 years and sent it to Hallbauer, whogave it the form in which it shall bear wit-ness that your deeds shall outlive mil-lenia. At the time of the presentati
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