Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 93
e localities, the furnace is built upon the flat, and a veritable bridge connects with the hill. Inplaces where 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… … crucible, or hearth ; /. t\ indicate the passages and tuyeres (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; s is the general mass of masonry, called the stack ; i are the in-walls, of…
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