The wonders of modern mechanism. A résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science (1896)
Cochrane, Charles Henry, 1856- · Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott · leaf 240
ofthem weighed sixty-eight thousand pounds each, two sixtythousand each, and two forty-eight thousand each. Tliis big blooming-mill requires the services of a tenthousand horse-power engine, which is directly coupled toone of its shafts. Smaller engines are used to w^ork therolls that lead up to… … THE MANUFACTURE OF STEEL. 233 Such perfect arrangement and almost entire abolition ofhand-labor are the secrets of the improvements in steel-making. Adjoining the blooming-mill is an hydraulicshear for reducing the blooms to the desired length. Itmakes nothing of shearing a seven by nine piece of…
Inventions · Mechanical engineering · Machinery
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