The Illustrated exhibitor and magazine of art : collected from the various departments of painting, sculpture, architecture, history, biography, art-industry, manufactures, inventions and discoveries, local and domestic scenes, ornamental works, etc., etc (1852)
London : John Cassell · leaf 153
y purposes of utility. Its greatest advantage exquisite a finish. The same substance, strange to say, which over bronze and copper lies in its greater cheapness, and to such furnishes the terrible rows of guns which fill our batteries, and a degree has this reached, that in many important works,… … FLATTENING MACHINERY. stone. It also possesses extreme hardness, and is consequently rings, statues, and vases, which surpass the best works of the extensively used in the manufacture of articles liable to great goldsmith in all but their value and brilliancy. Although, in a great number of…
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