Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 66
imported, raising itto 2,500,000 tons. The reader will now, it is hoped, be prepared to followwith some interest a brief account of the principal inventions which havebrought about results of such impoi-tance. Deferring for the moment any description of the latest blast furnaces,we invite his… … i-IG. \6.—Section and Plan 0/Blast Fur?tace {Obsolete Type). IRON. 4J- where the molten metal has been allowed to run out of the furnace into-channels made in dry sand ; first a main stream, then branches to rightand left, each of these with smaller offsets on each side of it. Thesesmaller channels…
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