CHAPTER VII.

THE FOUNDING LABORATORY.

The Iron Age. -- Iron the King of Metals. -- Locke’s Apothegm. -- The Moulder’s Art is Fundamental. -- History of Founding. -- Remains of Bronze Castings in Egypt, Greece, and Assyria. -- Layard’s Discoveries. -- The Greek Sculptors. -- The Colossal Statue of Apollo at Rhodes. -- The Great Bells of History. -- Moulding and Casting a Pulley. -- Description of the Process, Step by Step. -- The Furnace Fire. -- Pouring the Hot Metal into the Moulds. -- A Pen Picture of the Laboratory. -- Thus were the Hundred Gates of Babylon cast. -- Neglect of the Practical Arts by Herodotus. -- How Slavery has degraded Labor. -- How Manual Training is to dignify it. 45