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THE IRON MANUFACTURE OF 

 GREAT BRITAIN. 



THEORETICALLY AND PRACTICALLY CONSIDERED; 



Including Descriptive Details of the Ores, Fuels, ami Fluxes, employed ; 

 the Preliminary Operation of Calcina'ion ; the Blast, Refining 'and 

 Puddling Furnaces ; Engines and Machinery ; and the various Pro- 

 cesses in Union, &c. 



By WILLIAM TEHRAN, C.E., 



Formerlv Engineer at Hi" P>wla'sTrnn Work*, i n'Vrdip lafo Sir Johi Guest, Bart, 

 subsequently at the Ilirwain and Forest Works, under Mr. L'rawshay. 



SECOND EDITION. 



Revised from the Manuscript of the late Mr. TV. Truran, 

 By J. ARTHUR PHILLIPS, 



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



AND 

 W. H. DORM AN, C. E. 



OPINION'S OF THE PRESS. 



"The book treats of 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 materials employed in reducing the ores, and in producing the m;tal in its various 

 stages up to the finished metal in the fjrm of Riih, Merchant Bars, Rods, Hoops, and 

 Plates are most thoroughly and scientifically dealt with, and in the most intelligible 

 manner brought before the reader." Artix,an, October, 1862. 



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

 in the English language." Colliery Guardian, November 29, J85l. 



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

 text-book of the Iron Manufacture of thi Kingdom. It gives a most comprehensive and 

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

 distinguished from strictly professional subjects. The Author does not go out of his way to 

 theorise how Iron should or may be made, but he dcscr.bes how it is made in all the Iron 

 Districts of the Kingdom." Engineer, December 26, 1861. 



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

 valuable work than this. It is evidently the result of long, car^fal, and practical observation, 

 and it forms at once a gloriou> moiumrit tD the memory of its author, and an excellent 

 guide to those who are directly and hd.rectly intercst.d in the great subject of which it 

 treats." Mechanics' 1 Magaxine, Sept. 26, l85z. 



" To the valuable character of Mr. Truran's work, we fully referred upon the publication 

 of the first edition, and we cannot say more in praise of th; very handsome volume before 

 us, than that whatever information was wanted in the former his now been carefully 

 supplied, and that the whole work appears to have been subjected to an amount of careful 

 revision which has rendered it as near as may be perfect, and consequently gives it a just 

 claim to the highest position as a standard work upon the Metallurgy of the Metal of which 

 it treats. Scientific knowledge and practical experience have been brought to bear in its 

 production, and all the valuable elements of each have been most judiciously combined." 

 Miring Journal, September 20, 1862. 



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