Gowland, William, 1842-1922, Japan Society of London · [London? : s.n.] · leaf 40
eeper is employed for the same purpose, and the bloom is ( 45 )then hammered into shape with a stone, a larger stone servingas an anvil. In Japan the iron-smelting furnace which still survives insome districts, and in which, until about fifty years ago, thewhole of the iron and steel needed in the… … FEET Fig. g.—Longitudinal Section. can infer from their vestiges which have been unearthed, wereof a more advanced type. It consists simply of a V-shapedtrough of common clay, with holes near the bottom forthe introduction of the blast (figs. 9 above).^ The furnaceis charged with alternate layers…
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