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Identifier: ironsteelmagazin10sauv (find matches)
Title: The Iron and steel magazine
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Sauveur, Albert, 1863-1939
Subjects: Metallography Iron Steel
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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O <CO o to ?5 OtS3 U. o a: I XO e < CO fd <piM %K O 2 62 The Iron and Steel Magazine India boasts of exceedingly rich deposits of iron, but un-fortunately the iron ore and flux are widely separated andthe coal is so high in ash that it has not been possible to workdeposits by modern methods. The most primitive furnacesw^ere probably short shaft, built in the underwind side of ahill, the wind furnishing the blast. Charcoal was used asfuel and the ores reduced in small quantities. The thick-masses of iron were raked out of the bottom of the furnaceand forged into shape so that they could subsequently bewelded into large m.asses if required. Later the furnaces w^ereequipped with bellows, and their height greatly increased untilit reached about lo feet, and the output was greater than thatof any other primitive iron-making furnace. It is interest-ing to know that cast iron was probably first made in thesefurnaces of ancient India, but it was made as the result of anaccident and w

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