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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... actual practice . At the same time mere capacity will not of itself suffice for the production of what is now known as pig iron . If the ore and fuel were employed in such proportions that complete reduction of the oxide was rendered ...
... actual practice . At the same time mere capacity will not of itself suffice for the production of what is now known as pig iron . If the ore and fuel were employed in such proportions that complete reduction of the oxide was rendered ...
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... actual waste of heat in smelting iron . The experiment , however , was not only eminently successful in the direction in which he expected , but there was a most important saving in the consumption of fuel . Speedily other furnaces were ...
... actual waste of heat in smelting iron . The experiment , however , was not only eminently successful in the direction in which he expected , but there was a most important saving in the consumption of fuel . Speedily other furnaces were ...
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... actual merits , as an economical process of making iron , perhaps deserve . To its apparent simplicity has to be added the desideratum of giving a product comparatively free from phosphorus ; for , owing to the partially oxidizing ...
... actual merits , as an economical process of making iron , perhaps deserve . To its apparent simplicity has to be added the desideratum of giving a product comparatively free from phosphorus ; for , owing to the partially oxidizing ...
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... actual experience , we will now proceed to consider . I will pass over the attempts of Mr. Clay , who laboured long and assiduously in the cause , and who , after very many extensive trials made at the Walker Works in the year 1846 ...
... actual experience , we will now proceed to consider . I will pass over the attempts of Mr. Clay , who laboured long and assiduously in the cause , and who , after very many extensive trials made at the Walker Works in the year 1846 ...
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... actual metal 14.62 per cent . His numbers are no doubt entitled to be preferred to mine , but the discrepancy is not such as to alter the views expressed , which I regret are not those of Mr. Foster . Nor is this all ; for it must not ...
... actual metal 14.62 per cent . His numbers are no doubt entitled to be preferred to mine , but the discrepancy is not such as to alter the views expressed , which I regret are not those of Mr. Foster . Nor is this all ; for it must not ...
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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.
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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.
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