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MR. BOFFIN,it maybe remembered, introduced Mr. Weg to Mrs. Boffin as “the gentleman that's a going to decline and fall off the Rooshan Empire”. Prof. W. A. Bone may be introduced as the gentleman who has taken the opportunity, as Melchett medallist of the Institute of Fuel, to decline and fall off our coal and iron industry. Behind the subject he discussed, “A Century of Fuel Economy”—in (1) the manufacture of iron and steel, (2) of gas and coke and (3) in the production of power—lies the gradual decay of our iron industry. If European nations agree to disarm, if we continue to develop the use of the road engine, the interest in iron must pass over to nations like Japan and China—to the unsettled East. The topic is, therefore, one of extreme public importance.
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ARMSTRONG, H. The Iron and Steel Industry. Nature 129, 268–269 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129268a0
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