Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 103
so much to mistake in the principle as to adifficulty, inherent in the blast-furnace, of applying these highly fusible and reducing agents just at thepoint where they are wanted. 4-. Gaseous material—atmospheric air.—The remaining material in blast-furnaces, besides those thahave been considered,… … It IS, therefore, in tliis aspect, one of the most important to be duly managed; and when the enormousqurtntities of it tliat are required are taken into view, its probable influence and collateral etfect can beBtill better appreciated. The following average statement may be derived from the…
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