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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... regarded as purely scientific matter will be met with ; but I preferred this course , in order to make my meaning plain , and to avoid trouble in referring to previous sections . To some extent perhaps , the same observa- tion as that ...
... regarded as purely scientific matter will be met with ; but I preferred this course , in order to make my meaning plain , and to avoid trouble in referring to previous sections . To some extent perhaps , the same observa- tion as that ...
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... regarded as incapable of being furnished by those ores , which , from their abundance and cheapness of extraction , have placed Great Britain in her present high position as an iron making nation . In consequence of this supposed ...
... regarded as incapable of being furnished by those ores , which , from their abundance and cheapness of extraction , have placed Great Britain in her present high position as an iron making nation . In consequence of this supposed ...
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... regårded , hematite ore can , in the opinion of some competent anthorities , be brought oversea from a distance of 1000 ... regarded as inadmissible in the Bessemer converter . This modification of the steel process would , of itself ...
... regårded , hematite ore can , in the opinion of some competent anthorities , be brought oversea from a distance of 1000 ... regarded as inadmissible in the Bessemer converter . This modification of the steel process would , of itself ...
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... regarded as having been the forerunners of this discovery - a discovery which will 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 ...
... regarded as having been the forerunners of this discovery - a discovery which will 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 ...
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... regarded as a most daring example of metallic engineering . For a long time antecedent to Cort's use of grooved rollers , plates or sheets of iron had been spread out between plain cast iron cylinders . The last named invention is ...
... regarded as a most daring example of metallic engineering . For a long time antecedent to Cort's use of grooved rollers , plates or sheets of iron had been spread out between plain cast iron cylinders . The last named invention is ...
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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.