Hist Of Kent Connecticut

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This history of Kent, Connecticut provides a detailed look at the development of this picturesque New England town. Atwater explores a wide range of topics, from the town's early settlement to its role in the Revolutionary War to the rise of its industrial economy. Along the way, he offers readers a glimpse into the lives of the many fascinating characters who have called Kent home over the centuries. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...in a huge frame of stone. The round top is perhaps three feet in diameter at the top, and about nine feet in the bosh or widest portion, the stack being built large in the middle, from which it gradually tapers smaller toward the top and to the bottom or hearth. The latter consists of from twenty to forty stones laid very compactly and symmetrically like the concave of a bowl. A new hearth has to be put in about once a year at a cost of $600, and it takes about a week to build it. When the fire in the stack is started it is called "blowing in," and when it is allowed to go out, it is called "blowing out." The stack can be blown out in about twenty-four hours. Only when a new hearth is put in or there is a shut down for some purpose, is the fire allowed to go out. For many months, perhaps, it is fed with fuel and ore, night and day, Sundays included. Several men are kept constantly at work wheeling barrows full of charcoal and of ore, to be cast into the insatiable maelstrom of flames. The stack is fed by what are called "charges." A charge consists of perhaps thirty bushels of charcoal and from 1,100 to 1,400 pounds of ore, and as these charges rapidly follow one another, in order to keep the stack full, many thousands of bushels of charcoal are being burned, and many tons of ore being melted at the same time. From 1,500 to 1,700 bushels of charcoal are burned in a day of twentyfour hours, and from thirty to thirty-five tons of ore are melted in the same time. This quantity of of ore furnishes from fourteen to fifteen tons of iron dally or about 100 tons in a week. The charcoal used is obtained from the woods of the surrounding region. Continually mixed with the ore and charcoal in the stack is a quantity of...

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