Principles of the Manufacture of Iron and Steel : With Some Notes on the Economic Conditions of their Production (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Introductory; 2. Historical; 3. Direct processes for making malleable iron; 4. Preliminary treatment of materials for the blast furnace; 5. The blast furnace; 6. Of the use and theory of the hot blast; 7. On the quantity and quality of the fuel required in the blast furnace using air of different temperatures; 8. On the solid products of the blast furnace; 9. Chemical changes as they take place in the blast furnace; 10. On the equivalents of heat evolved by the fuel in the blast furnace; 11. Of hydrogen and certain hydrogen compounds in the blast furnace; 12. On the production of malleable iron from pig iron in low hearths; 13. On the refining and puddling furnace; 14. On more recent methods of separating the substances taken up by iron during its passage through the blast furnace; 15. Statistical; 16. British labour compared with that of the continent of Europe; 17. On labour in the United States of America; 18. Chief iron-producing countries compared; Corrections and additions; Index.