The practical metal-worker's assistant : comprising metallurgic chemistry, the arts of working all metals and alloys, forging of iron and steel, hardening and tempering, melting and mixing, casting and founding, works in sheet metal, the processes dependent on the ductility of the metals, soldering, and the most improved processes, and tools employed by metal-workers, with the application of the art of electro-metallurgy to manufacturing processes, collected from original sources, and from the works of Holtzapffel, Bergeron, Leupold, Plumier, Napier, Scoffern, Clay, Fairbairn, and others (1872)
Byrne, Oliver · Philadelphia : H.C. Baird · leaf 277
ng or breaking. Although some iron castings employed for bridges, girders, and even for machinery, require the enormous quantities of iron re¬ ferred to, on the other hand this useful metal is employed for exceedingly light and beautiful castings, abundant examples of which may be seen in the… … Its length is 4 feet 10 inches. It consists of about 180 links, and weighs If oz. avoirdupois. It was thus made : The larger links a a were first cast separately ; a solid model of the chain about 8 inches long, with core prints, as in Fig. 174, was then moulded. The links a, previously smoked to…
Metal-work · Electrometallurgy · Metallurgy
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