Principles of the Manufacture of Iron and Steel - With Some Notes on the Economic Conditions of Their Production

Klappentext This 1884 manual on the manufacture of iron and steel was written by a leading Victorian industrialist and scientist. Zusammenfassung Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell (1816–1904) was a metallurgist and industrialist who combined business skills with scientific expertise and was a world authority on blast furnace technology. His books combined technical know-how and global commercial awareness. This book, published in 1884, deals with the processes and economics of iron production. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introductory; 2. Historical; 3. Direct processes for making malleable iron; 4. Preliminary treatment of materials for the blast furnace; 5. The blast furnace; 6. Of the use and theory of the hot blast; 7. On the quantity and quality of the fuel required in the blast furnace using air of different temperatures; 8. On the solid products of the blast furnace; 9. Chemical changes as they take place in the blast furnace; 10. On the equivalents of heat evolved by the fuel in the blast furnace; 11. Of hydrogen and certain hydrogen compounds in the blast furnace; 12. On the production of malleable iron from pig iron in low hearths; 13. On the refining and puddling furnace; 14. On more recent methods of separating the substances taken up by iron during its passage through the blast furnace; 15. Statistical; 16. British labour compared with that of the continent of Europe; 17. On labour in the United States of America; 18. Chief iron-producing countries compared; Corrections and additions; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Isaac Lowthian Bell, Bell Isaac Lowthian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.2010
• EAN: 9781108026949
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02694-9
• No. of pages: 794
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology; Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology