Copy 1, Volume 1

A treatise on the progressive improvement and present state of the manufactures in metal / [Anon].

  • Holland, John, 1794-1872.
Date:
1831-1834
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the progressive improvement and present state of the manufactures in metal / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAP. I. INTRODUCTION. Primary Existence of Metals. — Early Traces of their Presence. — Acci- dental Causes of Fusion. — First Metallurgists. — Copper, Iron, and Steel. — Discoveries of Virgin and Meteoric Masses. — Iron and Steel, whether known to the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans.— Ancient Me- thods of preparing Steel. 4 - e - _ Page 1 CHAP. II. IRON WORKS IN ENGLAND, Early Iron Works in, Britain. — Cesar’s Statement.— Sites of ancient Forges. — Sussex, Gloucestershire, Furness, Hallamshire. — Reliquiz Eboracenses. —Vicissitudes of the Arts under the Romans, Picts, and Saxons. — Respect paid to the Smith of ancient Times. — Traditions of early Manufactures. — Dr. Pearson’s Characteristics of Iron, Steel, and Pig Metal, - - ~ 14) pgite - - - - 15 CHAP. III. SMELTING, Sow or Pig Metal.— Hypothesis of Smelting, — Indications of ancient Bloomaries, — Method of making Iron at Cuckfield in Essex, in the Se- venteenth Century. —Evelyn’s Execration of Iron Mills. — Effects of substituting Pit-Coal for Wood-Fuel. — Modern Seats of the Iron Manu- facture in England. — Native Ores. — Coking, — The Blast Furnace,— Blowing Machinery. - - - - - - 27 CHAP. IV. CAST-IRON FOUNDERY. Casting Jron Articles. — Founding and Boring Cannon, Pipes, or Cylin- ders, — Fata] Catastrophe. — Cast-Iron Road Rails, — Bridges. — Sun- derland Bridge. — Southwark Bridge. — Cast-Iron Masonry. — Pillars. — Foundery Goods, - - - - - - = 54 CHAP. V. IRON. — PUDDLING. —THE FORGE. Universal Value of Iron. — Conjectures as to the first Method of obtaining Malleable Iron. — Process formerly pursued at Cuckfield in Sussex. — In Sweden and Russia. — Introduction and Success of Puddling in England, = The old Iron Forge. —The Metal Helve. ae ee a