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 91
localities, the furnace is built upon the flat, and a veritable bridge connects with the hill. Inplaces wliere there are no hills—as in Staffordshire, for instance—a long ramp is constructed, either olearth or carpentry, along whose inclined plane the materials are carried up by suitable machinery.… … cracible, or hearth ; t, t, indicate the passages and tiiyire:, (pronounced tweers) for the blast. In F.g2346, b shows the boshes, a term applied as well to the space where the letter is as to the stones whichinclose it; « is the general mass of masonry, called the stack; i are the iii-tcalls, of…
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