Curiosities of the sky, a popular presentation of the great riddles and mysteries of astronomy (1909)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929 · New York, London, Harper & brothers · leaf 227
small quantity of platinum, and of whichin all some ten tons have been recovered for sale tothe various collectors throughout the world, that asbefore mentioned destroyed the grinding - tool atPhiladelphia through the cutting power of its em-bedded diamonds. These meteoric irons are scatteredabout… … METEORS, FIRE-BALLS, METEORITES lone crater in stratified rocks, it was greeted with in-credulous smiles; but since then the matter has as-sumed a different aspect. The Standard Iron Com-pany, formed by Messrs. D. M. Barringer, B. C.Tilghman, E. J. Bennitt, and S. J. Holsinger, havingbecome, in…
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