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 54
ing poured from the pot in which it is melted on to the eastins-table. In France 16hours are allowed for the melting, and the same time for the metal to remain in the cuvettes; butthe latter term is often extended in order that the aeriform bubbles may escape and the excess ofsoda become… … pots into the adjacent cuvettes by means of wrought-iron ladles with long handles. When the glassis in the proper condition to be cast, the tongs carriage, consisting of two powerful bars of ironunited like two scissors-blades, and resting upon two wheels, is pushed into the opening made in…
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