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INDEX TO VOLUME I. 



BASIC PROCESS. 

 Basic process, 436 ; pig-metal suit 

 able for, 437 ; sulphur should b 

 removed in blast furnace for, 436 

 tapping slag in, 436. 

 Bauxite, analysis of, 217, 297, 298 

 converted into emery by intense 

 heat, 296 ; infu'sibility of, 296 

 Le Chatelier's proposal to use, 217 

 lining of calcined, and plumbago 

 powder, 296 ; resists fluid cinder 

 296 ; supply of, 304. 

 Beam of steel v. beam of wood, 405. 

 Bell, I. L., address of, discussion of 



309-310. 



Bell, I. L., blast furnaces of different 

 dimensions, development and ap- 

 propriation of heat in, 264-268 ; 

 blast furnaces, economy of fuel in, 

 conditions of, 276-279 ; Price's 

 retort furnace, 324-325 ; separa- 

 tion of impurities from iron in 

 different processes, 353-360 ; sepa- 

 ration of phosphorus from pig- 

 iron, 362-365, discussion of papers 



ty. 



Bell, I. L., on blast furnace, 264 ; 

 diagram of, on distribution of 

 temperature in blast furnace, 

 290; discussion with Siemens,C.W., 

 on blast furnace, 358, 359 ; pro- 

 cess of dephosphorization, 362 ; 

 standard paper on blast furnace, 

 265 ; views on hot blast for and 

 capacity of blast furnace, 276. 



Bending test for steel, maintenance 

 of, 420. 



Berkley, G., iron and steel, strength 

 of, &c., discussion of paper by, 

 269-271. 



Berrier-Fontaine, M., shipbuilding, 

 steel for, discussion of paper by, 

 448-450. 



Bessemer, H., reference to, 375 ; re- 

 ference to remarks by, 305. 



Bessemer converter and open-hearth 

 steel furnace compared, 375. 



Bessemer medal, presentation of 



BLAST FURNACE, 

 to Prof, von Tunner, 360 ; re- 

 marks on occasion of, 360. 

 Bessemer steel, early, 411 ; for gene- 

 ral purposes, 376 ; pouring of, 

 ebullition in, 322. 



Bessemer steel process, 215, 438 ; 

 application extended, of steel due 

 to, 215 ; cheap steel produced by, 

 215, 380 ; difference between ore 

 process and, 287 ; difficulty of re- 

 moving sulphur and silicon in, 436 ; 

 f erro-mangancse or spiegeleisen in, 

 212 ; high quality of steel not always 

 producible with, 411 ; high tem- 

 perature of fusion produced by 

 oxidation of iron in, 286 ; im- 

 purities concentrated in dimin- 

 ished weight in, 376, 411 ; in- 

 dustries revolutionized by, 381 ; 

 first introduction of. 380 ; Mushet's 

 addition of spiegeleisen to, 212, 

 380 ; occlusion -of oxygen in metal 

 made by, 287 ; oxidation of carbon 

 and silicon in, slight oxidation of 

 manganese in, non-oxidation of 

 phosphorus and sulphur in, 286 ; 

 results of, 381. 

 Birmingham Sample Steel Works, 



advantage of, 218. 

 Blair's process, criticism of, 319 ; 



spongy iron by, 365. 

 Blast furnace, additional height of, 

 256, 257, 266; Bell's, I.L.,a standard 

 paper on, 265 ; boshes of, increased 

 temperature at, 267 ; capacity of, 

 considerations determining, 274, 

 275 ; capital expenditure v. other 

 means of saving in, 275 ; charging 

 hopper of, advantage and economy 

 by closing, 256 ; equality of heat 

 brought in by hot blast, and car- 

 ried away by escaping gases from, 

 263, 264 ; equality of ore charged 

 and smelted in, 257 ; amount of 

 gases, CO and C0 2 , passing from, 

 260 ; gases issue at reduced tem- 

 perature from, with increased tem- 



