Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 185
Catalan process at the present day are but modifications of it. These crude furnaces show that theproduction of iron from the ore is a process of the most simple description. The quality of the ironproduced in them also is not surpassed, and rarely even equalled, by that made by the most ap-proved…
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