History of the Manufacture of Iron in All Ages: And Particularly in the United States from Colonial Time to 1891. Also a Short History of Early Coal Mining in the United States ...

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American iron and steel association, 1892 - 554 Seiten
 

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Seite 71 - lead, and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it, so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there and melt you.
Seite 462 - The first Lord Sheffield declared that " the only use and advantage of American colonies or West India islands is the monopoly of their consumption and the carriage of their produce." McCulloch, in his Commercial Dictionary, admits that it was " a leading principle in the system of colonial policy, adopted as well by England as by
Seite 471 - act to explain and amend an act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act to prevent the exportation to foreign parts of utensils made use of in the cotton, linen, woollen, and silk manufactures of this
Seite 465 - authority aforesaid, that from and after the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and fifty, no mill or other engine for slitting or rolling of iron, or any plateing forge to work with a tilt hammer, or any furnace for making steel, shall be erected, or after such erection continued in any of His Majesty's colonies in America; and if any person or
Seite 376 - would be unnecessary—that the heat generated by the union of the oxygen of the air with the carbon of the metal would be sufficient to accomplish the refining and decarbonizing of the iron. I devised several plans for testing this idea of forcing into the fluid metal powerful blasts of air;
Seite 10 - sent to Hiram, king of Tyre, for " a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron.
Seite 488 - His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks county, Pennsylvania. An effort to identify them with the New England family of the same name ended in nothing more definite than a similarity of Christian names in both families, such as Enoch, Levi, Mordecai, Solomon, Abraham, and the like.
Seite 467 - of any mill, or other engine, for slitting or rolling of iron, or any plating-forge to work with a tilt-hammer, or any furnace for making steel in any of the said colonies,
Seite 165 - in his autobiography he says : " I made a present of the model to Mr. Robert Grace, one of my early friends, who, having an iron furnace, found the casting of the plates for these stoves a profitable tiling, as they were growing in demand.
Seite 465 - twenty-fourth day of June no subsidy, custom, imposition, rate, or duty whatever shall be payable upon bar iron made in and imported from the said colonies into the port of London ; any law, statute, or usage to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. And, that pig and bar iron made in His Majesty's colonies in America may

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