Royal 4/o, clol/i, Illustrated t>i/ 84 7'V// of Furnaces and Ma, 



THE IROI MANUFACTURE OF 

 GREAT BRITAIN. 



THEORETICALLY AND PRACTICALLY CONSIDERED: 



Tnelndincr Descriptive. Details of the Ores, Fuels, ami Fluxes employed 

 the Prclimin iry Operation of Caleiiia'ion ; the Bhist, 

 Puddling Furnaces ; Engines and Machinery ; and the vanou* l'n>- 

 ccs.se-: in Union, r. 



By WILLIAM TEHRAN, C.E., 



Former! vF.npin<y mt 'h Dmvla'slron AVork- i -iHrr tlK'la'oSir .1 



subscqiuiHIy attlie Ilirwjiin ami Forest Works, under Mr. Crav, 



SECOND EDITION. 



Revised from the Mannscnpt of the late Mr. TV. Trarun, 

 By J. ARTHUR PHILLIPS, 



Author of "A Manual of Metallurgy," ' Records of liming," &c, ; 



AND 



W. H. DORM AN, C. E. 



OF THE PRESS. 



"The book treat-; oi" every detail connected with the arrangement, erection, and practical 

 management of Iron Works, in the most minute and careful manner ; and the various ores 

 and the m iteriah employed in reducing the ores, and in producing the metal in its various 

 up fj the finished metal in the form of Riils, Merchant Bars, Rods, Hoops, and 

 Plates are most thoroughly ] ly dealt with, and in the most intelligible 



manner brought before the reader." Artisan, October, 1861. 



"The most complete and practical treatise upon the Metallurgy of iron to be found 

 n the English language." Colliery Guardian, November ag, i86z. 



" Mr. Truran's work is reilly the only one deserving the name of a treatise upon, and 

 text-book of the Iron Manuf.tcture of th: Kingdom. It gives a most comprehensive and 

 minute exposition of present practice, if the term may be applied to Iron r 

 distinguished from strictly prof : . The Author does not go out of his i 



e how Iron should or how it is made in all ; 



Districts of the Kingdom. 1 ' 1- ->er z6, 1861. 



" It has seldom fallen to our lot n introduce to the notice of the scientific public, a 



.1 gbrioin mo mm it t > the in -inorv of its author, and 

 who are directly and > the great subject of which it 



treats.*' Mechanic Magaxinc, Sept. 16, i85z. 



"To the v-l'iible character of Mr. Truran's work, we fully referred upon the puM 

 of the first edition, and we cannot r.ay moiv 

 us, thin thit whit.-ver information was waited in 

 .vhole work app 



t, and consequently : 

 claim ta the highest position as a stand .rd work \ip.m the Metallurgy of tht- i\i 



: . Sci.-itifi- I: 



production, and all th ' h have been most judiciously combined." 



Mining Journal, September 20, 186'. 



London: F. and F. N. SPON, 16, Buoklcrsbury. 



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