manufacture of iron, in all its various branches.
Subtitle: 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: By Frederic Overman. With one hundred and fifty wood engravings.
Edition: 3d ed., rev.
Series: American culture series -- 405.3.
Publisher: H. C. Baird; Trübner
Place of publication: Philadelphia; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
Subjects: Iron -- Metallurgy; Steel -- Metallurgy
Notes: Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms [n.d.] (American Culture Series, Reel 405.3)