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The pair of colossal Sphinxes, to adorn the pedestal of the Egyptian Obelisk called “Cleopatra’s Needle,” on the Victoria Thames Embankment, are cast at the foundry of Messrs. H. Young and Co., Eccleston-street, Pimlico. This chapter examines the operation of melting the metal at that establishment, where also the colossal equestrian statue of the Prince of Wales, modelled by Mr. Boehm, which Sir Albert Sassoon presented to the city of Bombay, was cast a few years ago. The mixture of metal used at Messrs. H. Young and Co.’s foundry is eleven parts of copper to one of tin; which alloy is similar to that proved to have been used by the ancients. It is a remarkable fact that the density of this alloy becomes greater than the mean density of its constituents; and, by experiments made at Woolwich Arsenal, its tenacity has been found equal to 30,700 lb. per square inch.
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