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XVII. On the Application of the Hot Blast, in the Manufacture of Cast–Iron
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2013
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Among persons interesting themselves in the progress of British manufactures, it can scarce fail to be known, that Mr Neilson of Glasgow, manager of the Gas Works in that city, has taken out a patent for an important improvement in the working of such furnaces as, in the language of the patent, “are supplied with air by means of bellows, or other blowing apparatus.” In Scotland, Mr Neilson's invention has been extensively applied to the making of cast-iron, insomuch that there is only one Scotch iron-work where the invention is not in use, and in that work, apparatus is under construction to put the invention into operation.
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- Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , 1836 , pp. 373 - 382
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- Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1836
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page 377 note * An incidental advantage attended the adoption of the water-tweers, inasmuch as these made it practicable to lute up the space between the blowpipe nozzle and the tweers, and thus prevent the loss of some air that formerly escaped by that space, and kept up a bellowing hiss, which, happily, is now no longer heard.