| Show it Ila 81 istance stance of steel an experiment wis was recently made in vienna in order to test the relative re tl tI stance under pressure of tile the hardest steel and the hardest stone small cubes of corundum and of the finest steel v were ere subjected to the test tile the corundum broke under tinder the 1 eight of six tons but the sti stel resisted up to forty two tons the steel split up wit alli a noise like tin the report of a 1 I gun brea log ing into a poo ponder ider and sending send ins sparks in every direction bored their way into the machine like ilke shot |
