While the process is nothing like that used by smiths in Damascus working with Wootz steel, the general idea of a metal material with varying properties throughout remains the same. For those ...

PRIOR to 1819, when Faraday published a paper on the composition of Indian Wootz steel, his contributions to knowledge had been represented by comparatively short communications, with no very ...

The paper also includes an interesting account of the method of making wootz or Indian steel as practised in India long prior to the manufacture of crucible steel in Europe.