In Part Second, the practical metallurgy iron is taken up and exhaustively treated in twelve chapters, in which all the approved processes are fully explained with detailed descriptions of the various ...

CAST iron has a very limited literature in comparison with steel, and it is only lately that any considerable attention has been given to its scientific study, although isolated workers have attempted ...

THIS is the third volume of a valuable series of treatises on metallurgy, written by Associates of the Royal School of Mines, under the able editorship of Prof. Roberts-Austen. It occupies an ...

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IN the year 1608 the British East India Company purchased seventeen tons of pig-iron — subsequently declared by Sir Thomas Gates to be “as good as any in Europe ” — for four pounds sterling per ton.

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