Moiraines reply was cold-drawn steel.

They also manufactured a variety of other steels, including automobile steel, cold-drawn steel, electric steel and high-speed steel.

And the changing feel of the material world is illustrated with things to touch, including a rough pine timber, a sleek copper rod and a 10-foot cable made of 26,474 cold-drawn steel wires for New York's George Washington Bridge.

The company was started in 1896 by James George Accles as Accles Ltd based at Holford Mill in Perry Barr in Birmingham as a producer of cold-drawn steel tubing, with the aim of supplying it to the bicycle industry.

Distant thunder smoked from the sky with a smell of cold-drawn steel wire and manganese slag; the car veered and bucked and smashed its underparts repeatedly down against the ruts ancf"cinders of a ruined landscape; flares of white light bleached the faces of the hashishin."