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 239
SMELTING IRON FURNACES. 217 60 feet high. A few have heen built still larger. This furnace has a double case, each of which consists of fire-bricks. This case is enclosed by common bricks, and these by a wall of stone masonry. The successive rows of bricks are laid stair-wise, having the … William Jessop, Esq., proprietor of the great iron works of Butterley and Codner Park in Derbyshire, has invented a very elegant and effective apparatus for feeding his blast furnaces with fuel, mine (calcined ironstone), and limestone in due proportions, and equally distributed round the inside of…
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