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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 17 17 Browse Search
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been built by Theodorus the Samian, who first discovered the art of casting iron and making statues of it. At Delphi is dedicated a Hercules and Hydra, both of iron. To make statues of iron is most difficult and laborious, but the work of Tisagoras, whoever he was, is really admirable. In Pergamus are the heads of a lion and a boar, both of iron. Theodorus is understood to have lived in Samos before it was merged into the Greek Empire, which took place when it was conquered by Athens, 440 B. C. A work on iron and steel written in 1550 does not mention any use for cast-iron; castings in bronze and brass had been known and used for certainly forty centuries. The early mode of making cannon was by fitting iron bars together and hooping them, but they were subsequently cast of bronze. British iron was cast by Ralph Page and Peter Baude in Sussex in the year 1543. In 1612, 1613, and 1619, patents were granted in England for the use of coal in iron-casting. The first two were uns