The Koh-i-Noor Cut and Come Again
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Crystallography, Steam-power, Engineering |
Following on from PU1/23/6/1, details the attempt to make the Koh-i-Noor diamond shine. Notes that the chemist James Tennant reported on the possibility of cutting the diamond, while two Dutch artisans, 'under the direction of Mr. Joshua Field, of the firm Maudsley, Field and Son', used a steam-powered machine to perform the cutting operation. (54) | |
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