... drawing" as practised at the present time. In the middle ages this industry was extensively pursued, and the artificers thus engaged were termed, jn the trade, "wire-smiths," but in the earliest days of the manufacture, gold, silver, and bronze appear... A Treatise Upon Wire, Its Manufacture and Uses, Embracing Comprehensive ... - Page 1 by J. Bucknall Smith - 1891 - 347 pages Full view -
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