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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... given before the Commissioners of the Navy that 50,000 tons of pig iron were annually converted by means of the process he had devised . If this statement be correct , it would appear that its value was quickly acknowledged by those ...
... given before the Commissioners of the Navy that 50,000 tons of pig iron were annually converted by means of the process he had devised . If this statement be correct , it would appear that its value was quickly acknowledged by those ...
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... given , contains a remarkable contrast with the particulars given by some1 French engineers of a works they visited in Wales about forty - five years ago . Then , in order to produce weekly almost exactly half the make of iron from one ...
... given , contains a remarkable contrast with the particulars given by some1 French engineers of a works they visited in Wales about forty - five years ago . Then , in order to produce weekly almost exactly half the make of iron from one ...
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... given by my friend differ in any degree from my own . The ore employed on Lake Champlain is valued at 15s . per It contains 70 per cent . of metallic iron ; but only 57 per cent . of rough slabs is obtained at the end of the process ...
... given by my friend differ in any degree from my own . The ore employed on Lake Champlain is valued at 15s . per It contains 70 per cent . of metallic iron ; but only 57 per cent . of rough slabs is obtained at the end of the process ...
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... given quantity of the combustible can raise the temperature of a certain weight of water ; or , which amounts to the same thing , on the quantity of water which can be raised one degree in temperature by a given amount of the ...
... given quantity of the combustible can raise the temperature of a certain weight of water ; or , which amounts to the same thing , on the quantity of water which can be raised one degree in temperature by a given amount of the ...
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... given are liable to considerable fluctuations , dependent on the nature of the materials employed . Thus some varieties of ore are more susceptible of reduction by carbonic oxide than others , and are therefore more speedily reduced ...
... given are liable to considerable fluctuations , dependent on the nature of the materials employed . Thus some varieties of ore are more susceptible of reduction by carbonic oxide than others , and are therefore more speedily reduced ...
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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.
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