Audsley, George Ashdown, 1838-1925, author, Greve, W. (Lithographer), printer, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, publisher, Imprimerie Lemercier et cie, printer · leaf 88
, chiefly in the form of files and other cutting tools, was largely imported by the Dutch merchants: and good qualities of cast iron were brought from China and India in ancient times. The process of smelting appears in Japan to have always been of a primitive nature, the furnaces being blown by a… … shown in the background, the right foot of the seated figure resting on the cross- handle of its piston-rod. The machine is simplicity itself, consisting of a rectangular piston working within a long box, furnished with the necessary suckers and valves, and having a nozzle carried to the furnace.…
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