The manufacture of iron, in all its various branches [microform] : 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. 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. With one hundred and fifty wood engravings.

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Main Author: Overman, Frederick, 1803-1852
Format: Microfilm Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : London : H. C. Baird; Trübner, 1854.
Edition:3d ed., rev.
Series:American culture series ; 405.3.
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