| Henry Stafford Osborn - Iron - 1869 - 1020 pages
...shows the same furnace in a section across the two tuyere arches and the tuyeres on J Coke Furnaces. The construction of a coke furnace does not materially...a charcoal furnace, except in its dimensions, and for the heavier pressure of its blast. Its height varies from forty to fifty feet. If the latter height... | |
| William Jasper Nicolls - Coal - 1896 - 434 pages
...1849, Overman, in his " Manufacture of Iron," writing of coke furnaces in the United States, said, " As there is but little prospect of an addition to the...shall devote but a limited space to this subject." In 1835 the Franklin Institute had offered a gold medal " to the person who shall manufacture in the... | |
| John Newton Boucher - Pittsburg (Lancaster County, Pa.) - 1908 - 566 pages
...thought it necessary to mention coke furnaces, and refers to the subject in the following language: "As there is but little prospect of an addition to the...which now exist we shall devote but a limited space to the subject." It is possible to smelt iron ore by using certain kinds of bituminous coal, or with anthracite... | |
| John Newton Boucher - Bessemer process - 1924 - 304 pages
...it necessary to mention coke as a factor in its production. His reference to it is as follows: "As there is but little prospect of an addition to the...now exist, we shall devote but a limited space to them." Both anthracite and bituminous coal have been used in smelting ore, but they were supplanted... | |
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