A History of Technology: The industrial revolution, c. 1750 to c. 1850Charles Joseph Singer Clarendon Press, 1958 - 728 pages |
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... bismuth , the commercially important metals of the period were lead and tin ; copper and zinc ; mercury , silver , and gold ; the platinum metals ; and cobalt , nickel , and manganese . Their extraction , production , and chief alloys ...
... bismuth , the commercially important metals of the period were lead and tin ; copper and zinc ; mercury , silver , and gold ; the platinum metals ; and cobalt , nickel , and manganese . Their extraction , production , and chief alloys ...
Page 120
... bismuth ran down the retorts and out into iron pans . As the pans filled , the bismuth was ladled out and cast into bars of 20 to 50 lb each . In the middle of the nineteenth century , about 10 000 tons were prepared annually by this ...
... bismuth ran down the retorts and out into iron pans . As the pans filled , the bismuth was ladled out and cast into bars of 20 to 50 lb each . In the middle of the nineteenth century , about 10 000 tons were prepared annually by this ...
Page 121
... bismuth and antimony , was obtained chiefly from native arsenic or the ores containing it , particularly mispickel ( arsenical pyrites ) , by sublimation in earthenware retorts and collection of the solid in large receivers , in which ...
... bismuth and antimony , was obtained chiefly from native arsenic or the ores containing it , particularly mispickel ( arsenical pyrites ) , by sublimation in earthenware retorts and collection of the solid in large receivers , in which ...
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GLASS by L M ANGUSBUTTERWORTH Director The Newton Heath Glass | 12 |
TELEGRAPHY by G R M GARRATT Deputy Keeper Department of Electrical | 22 |
FISH PRESERVATION by C L CUTTING Officer in Charge Humber | 44 |
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