The Cupola Furnace

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Excerpt from The Cupola Furnace Although it is now more than twenty years since the publication of the author's volume, "The Founding of Metals," that book is still in demand. The reception which has been tendered to it, together with the urgent requests of many foundrymen for a more modern work on cupolas, has encouraged him to prepare the treatise now offered to the public. This volume is designed to supply a want long felt, for a work on melting that would give practical details regarding the construction and management of cupolas, and the melting of iron for foundry work. Several valuable books have been written on the moulding and founding of iron and steel, but in these books, as in the foundry, but comparatively little attention is given to the cupola; and foundrymen and melters have been left to grope very much in the dark, and to rely solely on their own experience, in the construction and management of their cupolas. This condition of things, and the great importance of the subject, have combined to induce the author in the present work to endeavor to develop the most vital principles connected with the cupola, its construction and its use, together with the best practice of this country. In order to accomplish these ends, he has supplemented his almost lifelong experience by consulting the latest works on foundry practice, and by visiting leading and thoroughly up-to-date foundries in different parts of the United States. He therefore trusts that this book will prove to be a useful aid to foundrymen, whether owners or workers, both here and abroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.