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 196
244T. … iron bottom. The bottom of sand was subject to greatcorrosion by the oxide of iron formed during the opera-tion. Mr. Rogers alleges that whereas in 1818 it was con-sidered that 8 tons were a good weekly yield for a fur-nace, the effect of his invention has been to increase theweekly yield of a…
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