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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... probably occupy hereafter - if , indeed , they do not do so already - a position of considerable importance with regard to the interests of Great Britain as a manufacturing nation . In the matter of cost , viewed in the abstract , the ...
... probably occupy hereafter - if , indeed , they do not do so already - a position of considerable importance with regard to the interests of Great Britain as a manufacturing nation . In the matter of cost , viewed in the abstract , the ...
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... probably been effected within the last three centuries , and that it altered entirely the character of the operation in which it virtually constituted the first really great improvement . Contemporaneously with the use of the Catalan ...
... probably been effected within the last three centuries , and that it altered entirely the character of the operation in which it virtually constituted the first really great improvement . Contemporaneously with the use of the Catalan ...
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... . At the same time , however , in some of our colliery districts ( probably from the almost insuperable difficulty of cutting canals ) , the coal was B conveyed from the mines to the ship on railways — SECTION II . - HISTORICAL . 17.
... . At the same time , however , in some of our colliery districts ( probably from the almost insuperable difficulty of cutting canals ) , the coal was B conveyed from the mines to the ship on railways — SECTION II . - HISTORICAL . 17.
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... probably underlying them all — it was 40 years later , or about 1780 , when cast iron rails came into frequent use . But , long after this date , wood continued to be often employed ; and I remember , so late as about 1840 , seeing the ...
... probably underlying them all — it was 40 years later , or about 1780 , when cast iron rails came into frequent use . But , long after this date , wood continued to be often employed ; and I remember , so late as about 1840 , seeing the ...
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... probably for some time , if not permanently , remain as a culminating point in the progress of the manufacture of iron . The blast furnace furnished the old forge master with crude iron , so that in his low and expensively conducted ...
... probably for some time , if not permanently , remain as a culminating point in the progress of the manufacture of iron . The blast furnace furnished the old forge master with crude iron , so that in his low and expensively conducted ...
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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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