Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith
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I just got as really neat book on metallurgy.
Title is "The Metallurgy of Iron and Steel", by Bradley Stoughton.
It was printed in 1911. It was used as a text book. This one was purchased by Fred Harrison on Feb. 1, 1912. He was a student at Tennessee State in 1912-1913. He paid $3 for it, a big price in 1912. Inside there was even a handwritten test that he got a C+ on. I love old books.
An excerpt of how things were seen then is:
"...In the Universe there are millions of chemical compounds..........All of these are different combinations of about eighty elemental substances which are known as "the elements". The compounds can all be separated into their component parts by chemical means, (perhaps aided by electricity) but the elements have so far resisted every attempt to break them down into simpler substances, and they are therefore considered as the simple substances and the basis of all matter........."
Stacy
Title is "The Metallurgy of Iron and Steel", by Bradley Stoughton.
It was printed in 1911. It was used as a text book. This one was purchased by Fred Harrison on Feb. 1, 1912. He was a student at Tennessee State in 1912-1913. He paid $3 for it, a big price in 1912. Inside there was even a handwritten test that he got a C+ on. I love old books.
An excerpt of how things were seen then is:
"...In the Universe there are millions of chemical compounds..........All of these are different combinations of about eighty elemental substances which are known as "the elements". The compounds can all be separated into their component parts by chemical means, (perhaps aided by electricity) but the elements have so far resisted every attempt to break them down into simpler substances, and they are therefore considered as the simple substances and the basis of all matter........."
Stacy
