Ures Dictionary Of Arts Manufactures And Mines Vol 1

Excerpt from Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, Vol. 1: Containing a Clear Exposition of Their Principles and Practice These volumes have received the same unrelaxing attention, to every detail, which was bestowed upon the previous Editions, and which secured for them the confidence of the manufacturer, the miner, the metallurgist, and the general public. Every division of the Arts, each special process of Manufacture, and all the branches of Mining, have been most cautiously examined, and such improvements, as have been proved to be of real utility, have been recorded in all necessary detail. This has led to an increase In the size of the volumes, to the rejection of many articles which had, with the progress of advancing knowledge, become obsolete, and, to the curtailing of others which were of less importance than the new ones which it was necessary to introduce. The more important articles have been, for the most part, rewritten, and all of them subjected to, a critical revision, while many entirely new articles have been introduced. It is needless to particularise these, since the most hasty comparison between the volumes of the last Edition, and those of the present one, will at once render the new and the amended articles sufficiently obvious. The type for the whole of the work has been entirely reset, and 'nearly two hundred woodcut illustrations have been added. 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.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Excerpt from A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing a Clear Exposition of Their Principles and Practice Four-tidy, to teach Capitalists, who may be desirous of placing their funds in some productive bank of industry, to select judiciously among plausible claimants. 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.

Excerpt from A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing a Clear Exposition of Their Principles and Practick Lastly, to give the General Reader, intent chiefly on intellectual cultivation, a view of many of the noblest achievements of science, in effecting those grand transformations of matter to which Great Britain owes her paramount wealth, rank, and power among the kingdoms. The latest statistics of every important object of manufacture is given from the best, and, usually, from official authority, at the end of each article.' 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.

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. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ...in the drying, thus saving one half the time required for hand-made bricks, and avoiding the risk of loss from bad weather. The following remarks by Dr. Ure are deserving attention: --"The brick kilns and clamps round London and other large cities, which are fired with the breeze rubbish collected from dust holes that contain the refuse of kitchens, &c, emit, in consequence, most unpleasant effluvia; but brick kilns fired with clean coke or coals give out no gases of a more noxious nature than common household fires. The consideration of this subject was closely pressed upon my attention on being consulted concerning an injunction issued by the Chancellor against a brick (lamp in the Isle of Wight, fired with clean coke cinders from the steam-engine furnace at Portsmouth dockyard. The bricks, being of the description called sand stock, were of course made in moulds very slightly dusted with sand, to make them fall freely out The sand was brought from Portsmouth Harbour, and, on being subjected to a degree of heat more intense certainly than it could suffer in the clamp, was thought to give out traces of hydrochloric acid. "As it is well known to the chemist that common salt strongly ignited in contact with moist sand will emit hydrochloric acid, there was nothing remarkable in the above observation j but I ascertained that the sand with which the moulds were strewed would give out no hydrochloric ncid at a heat equal at least to what the bricks were exposed to in a clamp 10 or 12 feet high, and fired at its bottom only with a layer of cinders 3 or 4 inches thick. But I further demonstrated that the entire substance of the brick, with its scanty film of sand, on being exposed to ignition in a suitable apparatus, gave out--not...