The manufacture of iron, in all its various branches :
including a description of wood-cutting, coal digging, and the burning of charcoal and coke, the digging and roasting of iron ore, the building and management of blast furnaces ... : also a description of forge hammers, rolling mills, blast machines, hot blast, etc. etc. : to which is added an essay on the manufacture of steel /
by Frederick Overman.

Description

Main Author

Overman, Frederick, 1803-1852.

Language(s)

English

Published

Philadelphia : H. C. Baird ; 1854.

Edition

3rd ed., rev.

Subjects

Steel > Steel / Metallurgy
Iron > Iron / Metallurgy

Note

"With one hundred and fifty wood engravings."

Physical Description

xv, 492 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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