Alloy made by combining iron and other elements

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Iron: various machines involved in the Bessemer process of steel manufacture. Engraving c.1861.

Steel saws, scythes, and other edged implements in steel. Engraving by W.H. Lizars.

Chemistry: a piece of steel wire burning in oxygen inside a glass jar. Mezzotint, 1809.

Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1979.

An essay on the mystery of tempering steel : wherein the effects of that operation are fully considered / Extracted from the works of the celebrated Mons. Reaumur ; By J. Savigny.

Corus PLC : research and development : report, proceedings of the Committee and minutes of evidence / Science and Technology Committee.

Responses from the Government and from Corus PLC to the Science and Technology Committee's second report on Corus PLC - research and development.

Experiments and observations to investigate the nature of a kind of steel, manufactured at Bombay, and there called wootz: with remarks on the properties and composition of the different states of iron / By George Pearson.

Robert the III King of Scotland, his answer to a summonds sent by Henry the IV. of England, to do homage for the crown of Scotland

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Robert the III King of Scotland, his answer to a summonds sent by Henry the IV. of England, to do homage for the crown of Scotland