Opis: Papers on Iron and Steel, Practical and Experimental 2 Part Set - David Mushet

David Mushet (1772-1847) was a self-taught Scottish metallurgist, who experimented with the making of iron and steel while working as an accountant for a foundry, and soon became an acknowledged authority on the subject. In 1800 he patented a method to make cast steel from wrought iron. His discovery that the previously ignored black-band ironstone could be used without additional coal to economically manufacture iron transformed the Scottish iron industry. Moving to England he was connected with several foundries where he continued his research, patenting a method of making refined iron in the blast furnace. He became a managing director of the British Iron Company, and was involved in collieries, railway and canal companies. Mushet was a pioneer in technical writing, publishing many papers in the Philosophical Magazine. This two-volume collection was published in 1840, and includes analytical data on many coals and their coking properties.Preface; Part I. Practical Papers on the Subject of the Manufacture of Crude or Cast Iron: 1. Remarks on Mr. Joseph Collier's Observations on Iron and Steel; 2. On the principles of iron and steel; 3. Historical remarks on the manufacture of iron and steel; 4. On the materials used in the manufacture of pig or cast iron; 5. On the component parts of iron-stones, and how these, in the manufacturing, affect the quality of the cast iron; 6. On primary ores of iron; 7. On the use of calcareous stones in the blast-furnace; 8. Description of a blast-furnace, and that part of the blowing-machine attached to it; 10. On the production of cast iron, and the operations of the blast-furnace; 11. On the relative proportions of coals and iron-stones used in the blast-furnace; 12. On the various effects produced by the nature, compression, and velocity of the air used in the blast-furnace; 13. Description of the air and the water vault employed to equalize the discharge of air into the blast-furnace; 14. On the origin and discovery of iron; 15. On the origin of the blast-furnace; 16. On the progress of the manufacture of iron with pit-coal, and a comparison of the value and effects of pit-coal, wood, and peat-char; Part II. Experimental Papers, Principally Connected with Iron and its Combinations: 1. On the attempts in France to produce steel by means of the diamond and the decomposition of carbonic acid; 2. Remarks upon several experiments made to prove the conversion of iron into steel by means of the diamond; 3. An examination of C. Clouet's process for making cast steel from bar iron by means of the decomposition of the carbonic acid; 4. On the fusion of malleable iron with various kinds of glass; being a continuation of the examination of C. Clouet's process of making cast steel; 5. On the different proportions of carbon which constitute the various qualities of crude iron and steel; 6. Experiments on charcoal exposed to high degress of heat in close vessels; 7. Experiments and observations on the manufacture of malleable iron directly from the ore; 8. Experiments to ascertain the affinities of carbon with clay, lime, and silex, separately or as compounds, united with the oxyde of iron, forming iron ores and iron-stones; 9. Experiments on wootz of Indian steel; 10. Experiments on various earths, undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether they are metallic oxydes; 11. Analysis of various kinds of pit-coal; 12. Experiments relative to coals and coke obtained from wood and pit-coal; 13. Result of some experiments on the distillation of various vegetable and animal substances in the dry way; 14. On the affinity existing between oxydes of carbon and iron; 15. On cast iron and steel, with experiments to ascertain whether manganese may be alloyed with iron; 16. On the deoxydation and reduction of iron ores; 17. Facts illustrative of the shrinkage and expansion of cast iron and steel; 18. On the crystallization of cast-iron; Appendix: Analyses of the coals principally used at the iron works of England and Wales; Tabular statement of the progress of the manufacture of iron, contrasting the effects of cold and heated air in the blast-furnace; Index.

Szczegóły: Papers on Iron and Steel, Practical and Experimental 2 Part Set - David Mushet

Tytuł: Papers on Iron and Steel, Practical and Experimental 2 Part Set
Autor: David Mushet
Producent: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108027014
Rok produkcji: 2011
Ilość stron: 1010
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 1.46 kg

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