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 299
ZINC. 277 … furnaces and retorts, arranged according to this invention, one of the furnaces heing in section; and Jig. 182. is a transverse section of the same, a, a, are a series of retorts of fire-clay, arranged, side by side, on a shelf of slabs or fire-tiles. These retorts are each closed at one end and…
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