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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... less favourably circumstanced than Great Britain in the matter of mineral fuel . To manufacture an iron rail in Scotland fifty years ago , 11 or 12 tons of coal would have been consumed . To - day less than one - half of this quantity ...
... less favourably circumstanced than Great Britain in the matter of mineral fuel . To manufacture an iron rail in Scotland fifty years ago , 11 or 12 tons of coal would have been consumed . To - day less than one - half of this quantity ...
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... less than one half of what it was when using the blast at atmospheric temperatures . The utmost surprise was excited among scientific men by these results , the examination of which will be best deferred until the action of the blast ...
... less than one half of what it was when using the blast at atmospheric temperatures . The utmost surprise was excited among scientific men by these results , the examination of which will be best deferred until the action of the blast ...
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... less than one- third of this money . In 1855 M. Chenot received the highest honour the Jurors of the Paris Exhibition of that year could bestow , for his direct process , declared by a high French authority to be the " greatest ...
... less than one- third of this money . In 1855 M. Chenot received the highest honour the Jurors of the Paris Exhibition of that year could bestow , for his direct process , declared by a high French authority to be the " greatest ...
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... less perfect character of combustion , the fuel actually performs a much larger comparative duty than that just mentioned . I am quite prepared , from personal observation , to admit that a very considerable portion of the ore is ...
... less perfect character of combustion , the fuel actually performs a much larger comparative duty than that just mentioned . I am quite prepared , from personal observation , to admit that a very considerable portion of the ore is ...
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... . Professor Tunner gives no less than 36s . 8d . ( 20 gulden ) per ton as the cost for labour at the Towcester works , carried on by Dr. Sie- mens . This seems excessive , and may be partly 40 SECTION III . - DIRECT PROCESSES .
... . Professor Tunner gives no less than 36s . 8d . ( 20 gulden ) per ton as the cost for labour at the Towcester works , carried on by Dr. Sie- mens . This seems excessive , and may be partly 40 SECTION III . - DIRECT PROCESSES .
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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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