Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 49
ce of gravity. Probably one of the most powerful steam hammers everconstructed is that recently erected at the Royal Gun Factory at Wool-wich, for the purpose of forging great guns for the British Navy. It hasbeen made by Nasmyth & Co., and is in shape similar to their other steamhammers. Its… … Fig. 13.—NasmytKs Steam Hammer. of 30 tons ; steam is injected behind the falling piston, which is thus driversdown with vastly enhanced rapidity and impulse. Of the lower portion ofthis stupendous forge, nothing is visible but a flat table of iron—the anvil—level with the floor of the foundry. But…
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