Chapter

 1 II    |              Upon the table (a huge iron plate supported upon six
 2 VII   |            employing?”~“Simply cast iron,” said General Morgan.~“
 3 VII   |     proportionate to its volume, an iron ball of nine feet in diameter
 4 VII   |          shot intended to pierce an iron plate; it will suffice to
 5 VII   |            another metal instead of iron.”~“Copper?” said Morgan.~“
 6 VII   |            of gold, the tenacity of iron, the fusibility of copper,
 7 VII   |            three times lighter than iron, and seems to have been
 8 VIII  |            it with hoops of wrought iron, and finally surrounding
 9 VIII  |             low price, such as cast iron. What is your advice, major?”~“
10 VIII  |          continued Barbicane, “cast iron costs ten times less than
11 VIII  |          the siege of Atlanta, some iron guns fired one thousand
12 VIII  |      minutes without injury.”~“Cast iron is very brittle, though,”
13 XI    |             the finest oil, besides iron mines, in which the yield
14 XIV   |       number of huts constructed of iron plates, separately pieced
15 XIV   |        depth of four feet. Then the iron of the picks struck upon
16 XV    |             had decided to use cast iron for the Columbiad, and in
17 XV    |         presses, and the like.~Cast iron, however, if subjected to
18 XV    |        forwarded to Tampa Town, the iron ore, molten in the great
19 XV    |           and transformed into cast iron. After this first operation,
20 XV    |          with 136,000,000 pounds of iron, a quantity far too costly
21 XV    |           and to load them with the iron in bars. This, however,
22 XV    |           at Tampa Town. Thence the iron was transported by rail
23 XV    | simultaneously these 60,000 tons of iron. Each of these furnaces
24 XV    |          flat bottom upon which the iron bars were laid. This bottom,
25 XV    |     equilibrium, had to be bound by iron bands, and firmly fixed
26 XV    |             give vent to the molten iron and completely to empty
27 XVI   |          enabled to set foot on the iron sheet which lay level upon
28 XVI   |      casting a cannon against which iron plates sixty feet thick
29 XIX   |      densest metal, such as silver, iron, or platinum! I have the
30 XXI   |         seemed to be caused by some iron instrument. A great deal
31 XXI   |       simply from a rivalry between iron plates and shot, and, finally,
32 XXIV  |           massive pieces of wrought iron, heavy corner-clamps and
33 XXIV  |             by means of an enormous iron crane; an ingenious mechanism
34 XXVIII|       should be a Columbiad cast in iron, 900 feet long, and run
35 XIV   |         terrible burn, like that of iron at a white heat; for whether
36 XXII  |             had been replaced by an iron hook, and on the other that