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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, working by charcoal, coke, or anthracite; the refining of iron, and the conversion of the crude into wrought iron by charcoal forges and puddling 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 Frederic Overman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Overman, Frederick, 1803-1852.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iron--Metallurgy.
- Iron.
- Steel--Metallurgy.
- Steel.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 492 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition, revised.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : H.C. Baird, 1854.
- OCLC:
- 8526886
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