A History of Coal Mining in Great BritainMacmillan and Company, 1882 - 273 sider |
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... success- ively at London , the Isle of Purbeck , Milford Haven , and on the Trent , without accomplishing anything beyond " melting vast sums of money in this glass business . " At last , however , his indomitable per- severance was ...
... success- ively at London , the Isle of Purbeck , Milford Haven , and on the Trent , without accomplishing anything beyond " melting vast sums of money in this glass business . " At last , however , his indomitable per- severance was ...
Side 41
... success in the early attempts to smelt with coal , or coke , seems to have been the want of a sufficiently powerful blast . With charcoal fuel a very light blast sufficed . Thus the lead smelters of Derbyshire employed no artificial ...
... success in the early attempts to smelt with coal , or coke , seems to have been the want of a sufficiently powerful blast . With charcoal fuel a very light blast sufficed . Thus the lead smelters of Derbyshire employed no artificial ...
Side 42
... success in smelting with coal was Dud Dudley . His efforts were directed exclusively to the manufacture of iron . Dud Dudley was a natural son of Edward , Lord Dudley , of Dudley Castle , Staffordshire . As a boy he took great delight ...
... success in smelting with coal was Dud Dudley . His efforts were directed exclusively to the manufacture of iron . Dud Dudley was a natural son of Edward , Lord Dudley , of Dudley Castle , Staffordshire . As a boy he took great delight ...
Side 43
... success of his experiments , and desiring him to obtain a patent for the process . This Lord Dudley forthwith proceeded to do , and a patent , dated 21st February , 1621 , " for melting iron ore , making bar iron , & c . , with coal ...
... success of his experiments , and desiring him to obtain a patent for the process . This Lord Dudley forthwith proceeded to do , and a patent , dated 21st February , 1621 , " for melting iron ore , making bar iron , & c . , with coal ...
Side 44
... not been much of a success . It had hitherto been carried on in fur- naces originally built for smelting with charcoal . Dudley had in consequence been obliged to use very light charges 44 [ CHAP . V. A HISTORY OF COAL MINING.
... not been much of a success . It had hitherto been carried on in fur- naces originally built for smelting with charcoal . Dudley had in consequence been obliged to use very light charges 44 [ CHAP . V. A HISTORY OF COAL MINING.
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