Excerpt from Iron and Steel, Their Production and Manufacture
Of all the Commodities of Commerce Iron is by far the most important. In this country it forms the basis of an Industry which ranks second only to that of Agriculture, it enters essentially into every other manufacture, it is the maid-of-all-work of Science, the servant of the Arts. The civilisation of nations is measured by it, wealth results from its possession and progress accompanies its use.
In writing the story of iron in the short space which this book necessarily allows, it is manifestly impossible to deal with finished manufactures save those which are made directly from the raw material such as rails, girders, bars, plates, etc., and even these can only be treated in a very general way. The endeavour of the Author has been to write of the subject on broad lines, and thus give a comprehensive and clear account of it without too much detail. He wishes to express his obligation to Scrivener's History of the Iron Trade, Swank's Iron in all Ages, and Sir Lowthian Bell's work, Principles of the Manufacture of Iron and Steel, and to thank Mr. S. Marston, of the North Eastern Steel Co., and Mr. Henry Simpson, of the Middlesbrough Chamber of Commerce, for much valuable assistance.
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