SOLINGEN  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, in the Prussian See also:

• RHINE (Lat. Rhenus, Ger. Rhein, Fr. Rhin, Dutch Rhyn, or Rijn)

Rhine See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

Province, on a height above the See also:

• WUPPER

Wupper, 13 m . S.E. of See also:

• DUSSELDORF

Dusseldorf, and 20 M . N.E. of See also:

• COLOGNE (Ger. Koln, or officially, since 1900, Coln)

Cologne by See also:

• RAIL

rail . Pop . (r905), 4.9,018 . Solingen is one of the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief seats of the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron and See also:

• STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry,, its speciality consisting in all kinds of See also:

• CUTLERY (Fr. coutellerie, from the Lat. cultellus, a little knife)

cutlery, Solingen See also:

• SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword-See also:

• BLADES, WILLIAM (1824-1890)

blades have been celebrated for centuries, and are widely used outside Germany, while bayonets, knives, See also:

• SCISSORS

scissors, surgical See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments, files, steel frames and the like are also produced in enormous quantities . These articles are largely made by the workmen at their own homes and supplied to the depots of the large dealers; there are about 20,000 workers in steel in Solingen and the vicinity . Solingen received its municipal See also:

• CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter in 1374 . Sword-blades have been made here since the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages, and tradition affirms that the See also:

• ART

art was introduced during the See also:

• CRUSADES

Crusades by smiths from See also:

• DAMASCUS

Damascus .