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

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H.C. Baird, 1854 - Iron - 492 pages

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