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From the first, Jabel and Tubalcain, Nimrod “the stout hunter,” the learning of the Pharaohs, and the wisdom of the East country, are of the world.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry

Doubtless, it was the proceeding employed by Tubalcain, and the first metallurgists of the inhabited world.

From The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules

Old Tubalcain had sweated amain to forge the brand and ball; But failed to frame the mighty hull that held enfortressed all.

From War Poetry of the South by Various

Tubalcain, son of Lamech, descendant of Cain, the inventor of metallurgy, 129.

From Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna)

If we accept the Hebrew Scriptures, we must believe that mining was carried on in the time of Tubalcain, spoken of in Genesis.

From The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Hoskin, Arthur J.