Education
- Copper Production
- Copper Facts
- History of Copper
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- Introduction
- The Raw Material
- The Original Sources of Supply
- The Name "Copper"
- The Spanish Mines
- Other Roman Sources of Supply
- The Beginnings of Bronze
- Early Copper Mining in Britain
- Early Smelting Practice
- Mediaeval Sources of English Copper
- The Peak Years of British Copper Mining
- Older Sources of the Metal Abroad
- The Great American Expansion of Copper Mining
- Copper in Ancient Times
- Copper and Bronze in Ancient Greece and Rome
- Copper in the Middle Ages
- Monumental Brasses
- The Mediaeval Bell-founders
- Mediaeval Ordnance
- Brass Wire
- The Pin Trade
- Stained Glass Windows
- Tudor Weights and Measures
- The Great Mediaeval Bronze Doors
- Grilles, Gates, Tombs and Statues
- Weather-Vanes
- Enamelling
- China and Japan in the Middle Ages
- Copper in the Pre-Columbian Civilizations of America
- Early Bronze Casting in West Africa
- The Industrial Age
- The Welsh Process
- Growth of the Brass Trades
- Some More About Pins
- Invention of the Stamping Press
- The Great Inventor-Craftsmen
- Josiah Wedgwood
- Bolsover and Sheffield Plate
- Navigational Instruments
- Brass Clocks and Watches
- Copper Engraving Plates
- Architecture and the Fine Arts
- Development of the Copper Coinage
- The Old Horse-Brasses
- Copper and Brass in Ships
- Copper in Electrical Engineering
- Franklin's Lightning Conductor
- Cavendish
- The Voltaic Pile and its Consequences
- Faraday's Famous Ten Days
- The Widening Field
- The Development of the Dynamo
- The Electric Telegraph
- The First Submarine Cables
- The Atlantic Cable
- Electricity Generation and Supply
- Cadmium Copper
- The Telephone
- Electric Lighting
- Radio and Radar
- Copper in Modern Times
- Introduction
- Copper in the USA
- 60 Centuries of Copper
- The Statue of Liberty
- Copper & Kids
King Solomon's Temple
The antiquity of the Jews is much less than is commonly imagined, for the Egyptians were a very old mature nation, steeped in tradition, long before they conquered and enslaved the Jewish people. Nevertheless, Solomon was king around 1000 B.C. The twin pillars that once stood before the porch of Solomon's Temple at Jerusalem were of bronze. They were about 3 in. thick, 6 ft in diameter, and more than 26 ft high. At their summits rose elaborate bronze capitals 71/2 ft high. Within this temple stood the celebrated 'Bronze Sea', a circular bronze tank holding more than 16,000 gallons which rested upon the backs of twelve bronze bulls.
Copper in Ancient Times
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