The practical metal-worker's assistant : containing the arts of working all metals and alloys, forging of iron and steel, hardening and tempering, melting and mixing, casting and founding, works in sheet metal, the processes dependent on the ductility of the metals, soldering, and the most improved processes, and tools employed by metal-workers, with the application of the art of electro-metallurgy to manufacturing processes : collected from original sources, and from the works of Holtzapffel, Bergeron, Leupold, Plumier, Napier, and others ... (1851)
Byrne, Oliver · Philadelphia : H.C. Baird · leaf 129
ltingsare made up in great part of old metal, which is sometimes wet ordamp, they have iron doors to enclose the mouth of the pan, in caseany of the metal should be splashed about from the moisture reachingthe fluid metal. Antimony, copper, gold, silver, and their alloys, are for the mostpart… … moulding trough, h, for the sand on the side opposite the furnace,the pouring or spill trough, c, in the centre, and the core oven d,which is usually built in the wall close against one of the flues; butthese matters will be described hereafter. The brass furnace is usually built within a cast-iron…
Metal-work · Electrometallurgy · Metallurgy
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
