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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.

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)

In which case the Turanian settlers and builders of cities would answer to Tubalcain, the smith and artificer.

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

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

From The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules

Visible Ploughmen and Hammermen there have been, ever from Cain and Tubalcain downwards: but where does your accumulated Agricultural, Metallurgic, and other 130Manufacturing Skill lie warehoused?

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas