“Iron is thought to date back to between .3000 and 4000 8.C.," said Mr J. Hutton in an address to the Canterbury' branch of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry. “There is a piece in the British Museum originating from the pyramid of Gizeh which was erected about 3733 8.C.. The process of smelting iron is supposed to originate from the Hindus, although smelting by means of the blast furnace was done in Germany as early as 1350 A.D. and in England about 1500. Steel was first made by the Chaldean or Egyptians by methods resembling our crucible process. In India, the celebrated Indian swords were made by melting very pure iron ores, mixed with chopped wood, in clay crucibles in a charcoal fire blown by goatskin bellows. No finer tool steel has ever been produced.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1940, Page 2
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