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 49
furnace is a pit about 7 feet deep, 16 feet wide, and as long as the furnace; over this at inter-vals of about 2 feet are erected, in front of each hole of the furnace, wooden stagings or platforms, upon which the workman stands when swinging2157. the cylinder to and fro and over his head. The…
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