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 253
e clean, and abundanceof fluid metal is employed, in order to impart sufficient heat to makea natural soldering—a process which is also, although differentlyaccomplished, in plating copper with silver, (page 104,) as the twometals are raised to a heat just short of the melting point of thesilver,… … vented in France by the Count de Richemont: it is in a great measureconverting the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe invented by Dr. Hare, to the ser-vice of the workshop, and it is done with great simplicity and safety.The elastic tube k, supplies hydrogen from the generator, and the pipea, supplies…
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