Principles of the Manufacture of Iron and Steel: With Some Notes on the Economic Conditions of Their ProductionG. Routledge, 1884 - 744 pages |
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... England , 520. Same in other countries of Europe , 521. Labour in malleable iron works in in Great Britain , 525. Same in other countries of Europe , 527 . British and continental rates compared , 529. Wages in Bessemer steel works ...
... England , 520. Same in other countries of Europe , 521. Labour in malleable iron works in in Great Britain , 525. Same in other countries of Europe , 527 . British and continental rates compared , 529. Wages in Bessemer steel works ...
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... England ores would be inadequate to meet the additional demand made on them by all the new steel rail mills , and hence our supplies had to be supplemented by large importations from foreign countries . The iron trade of Great Britain ...
... England ores would be inadequate to meet the additional demand made on them by all the new steel rail mills , and hence our supplies had to be supplemented by large importations from foreign countries . The iron trade of Great Britain ...
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... England and elsewhere ? This is a subject which is largely occupying the minds of the ironmasters of this country . The experience of twenty years has reduced the cost of making Bessemer ingots to a mere fraction of its former amount ...
... England and elsewhere ? This is a subject which is largely occupying the minds of the ironmasters of this country . The experience of twenty years has reduced the cost of making Bessemer ingots to a mere fraction of its former amount ...
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... England regulating the felling of timber . Such a state of things naturally led to the consideration of the fitness of mineral coal as a substitute for charcoal ; and towards the middle of the seventeenth century we find Dudley engaged ...
... England regulating the felling of timber . Such a state of things naturally led to the consideration of the fitness of mineral coal as a substitute for charcoal ; and towards the middle of the seventeenth century we find Dudley engaged ...
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... England , was destined to prove the nursery not only for railway com- munication itself , but for those steam engines without which it would have been useless to contemplate the building of tracks of iron upon anything approaching their ...
... England , was destined to prove the nursery not only for railway com- munication itself , but for those steam engines without which it would have been useless to contemplate the building of tracks of iron upon anything approaching their ...
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20 units actual amount anthracite average Belgium Bessemer blast furnace Britain burnt calcined calories carbon as carbonic carbonic acid cent charcoal charge cinder Clarence Cleveland CO₂ coke collieries combustion compared composition considerable consumed consumption contained converter cost cubic feet cwts district Durham earnings employed England escaping gases estimated experience favour figures fixed carbon forge fuel Germany given hearth heat evolved hematite hot blast hydrogen increase Iron and Steel iron trade ironstone labour less lime limestone loss malleable iron manganese manufacture materials matter metallic iron metalloids Middlesbrough mineral mines nitrogen obtained oxide of iron oxygen paid phosphorus pig iron present produced puddling furnace quantity of carbon railway rates raw coal reduced referred silica silicon slag smelting steel rails Sulphur temperature tons Total tuyeres unit of carbon unit of coke United Kingdom units of iron wages weight
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Page 39 - A personal and apparently immaterial event produced a revolution of public feeling, for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the history of English politics.
Page 381 - It is only within the last quarter of a century, that we have...
Page 585 - Britain ;" elsewhere asserting that it would " prove a match for any part of the world in the production of cheap iron.
Page 300 - Birkinbine, editor of the Journal of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron Workers.
Page 489 - So far as my own observation goes, I should say that the...
Page 478 - ... were sugar, salt, coals, candles, soap, shoes, stockings, and generally all articles of clothing and all articles of bedding. It may be added, that the old coats and blankets would have been, not only more costly, but less serviceable than the modern fabrics.
Page 315 - Fuller's earth to the extent of 5 per cent of the weight of the tallow is added and the whole mass agitated about thirty minutes.
Page 478 - Second, was fifty shillings. Bread therefore, such as is now given to the inmates of a workhouse, was then seldom seen, even on the trencher of a yeoman or of a shopkeeper. The great majority of the nation lived almost entirely on rye, barley, and oats.
Page 390 - The nature of the gases evolved during the blowing of a charge of Bessemer steel has recently been investigated by Mr. GJ Snelus, who has given the following tabular statement of the composition of the gas at different periods of a blow lasting eighteen minutes. I.
Page i - Principles of the manufacture of iron and steel, with some notes on the economic condition of their production.