Recent improvements in arts, manufactures, and mines : being a supplement to his Dictionary (1844)
Ure, Andrew, 1778-1857, Ure, Andrew, 1778-1857. Dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines · London : Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 166
IRON. 144 Fig. 87. is a plan of the blast furnace, drawn to a smaller scale than that of the preceding figures. … The three sets of hot-blast apparatus, all communicate with one line of conducting pipes, A, which leads to the furnace. Thus in case of repairs being required in one set, the other two may be kept in full activity, capable of supplying abundance of hot air to the blast, though of a somewhat lower…
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