Both Uses of
Iron Age
in
Atlas Shrugged
- They had the Stone Age and the Iron Age and now they're going to call it the Rearden Metal Age-because there's no limit to what your Metal has made possible.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- Instead of building new furnaces, thought Rearden, he was now running a losing race to keep the old ones going; instead of starting new ventures, new research, new experiments in the use of Rearden Metal, he was spending the whole of his energy on a quest for sources of iron ore: like the men at the dawn of the Iron Age-he thought-but with less hope.†
Chpt 2.1
Definition:
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(Iron Age) the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weapons (very roughly 1200 BC to 50 AD)