A model of a wind-powered furnace newly set up in the Martin Wickramasinghe museum in Koggala brings to life an ancient iron smelting industry. By Renuka Sadanandan, Pix by M.A. Pushpa Kumara ...

Up to 1709, furnaces ... iron, because it contained sulphur, and this made the iron too brittle to be of any use. However, in 1709, a man called Abraham Darby finally succeeded in smelting iron ...

We know that prehistoric people used tools made from copper, gold, and iron, but we also know that they were not capable of ...