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 124
ir, and the metal, instead of being lifted and looped, is runInto plates. The waste in this operation is from 5 to 7 per cent, on the crude iron: ma:eage, proper,is done with charcoal. The reverberatory furnace used is similar in form to what has been already figured under a formersection. (<■•)… … iROiSr. iiu as elsewhere, is more or less appropriate and even necessary, wlienever iron is to be produced in greatquantity, and fossil fuel is of course to be relied on. Fig. 2398 is a ground plan, on a scale of l-25th of the actual size, of an English finery, blown with si.\t.iyfcres. In this…
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