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To: TimF who wrote (27921)4/23/2008 8:11:20 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71588
 
Steel was invented long ago and only the best smiths who could recite the magical chants could make it. Not until Henry Bessimer mass produced in using the steam engine in 1856 was it available for use in guns and such.