Steel ships, their construction and maintenance : a manual for shipbuilders, ship superintendents, students, and marine engineers (1901)
Walton, Thomas · London : Charles Griffin & Co. ; Philadelphia : Lippincott · leaf 26
be regarded as relative.In hardly any case is the cold blast introduced without some preliminary heating. IRON AND STEEL. 7 This blast enters near the bottom of the furnace, and blows incessantly,excepting when fresh charges are being introduced into the furnace, andalso during the time occupied in… … Fio. 1.—Section of a Cleveland Blast-Fiirnace. the incandescent fuel in the furnace. The melted iron descends towardsthe base or hearth of the furnace, along with slags produced by thecombination of the earthy substances in the ore with the fluxes. In itsdownward course the iron absorbs more carbon…
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