A Handbook of the Industries of the British Isles and the United StatesD. Bogue, 1882 - 220 pages |
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... smelting the ore , and the forges and mills to turn the iron into rails and manufactured iron . The oldest seats of the iron trade in Great Britain are South Staffordshire and Scotland , and to this day they keep up their import- ance ...
... smelting the ore , and the forges and mills to turn the iron into rails and manufactured iron . The oldest seats of the iron trade in Great Britain are South Staffordshire and Scotland , and to this day they keep up their import- ance ...
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... smelting the ore , and the forges and mills to turn the iron into rails and manufactured iron . The oldest seats of the iron trade in Great Britain are South Staffordshire and Scotland , and to this day they keep up their import- ance ...
... smelting the ore , and the forges and mills to turn the iron into rails and manufactured iron . The oldest seats of the iron trade in Great Britain are South Staffordshire and Scotland , and to this day they keep up their import- ance ...
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... smelting and manufacturing iron and steel , and the amount of money invested in the trade amounts to many millions of pounds sterling . COPPER , BRASS , TIN , AND LEAD . COAL and Iron , though certainly the most valu- able , are not the ...
... smelting and manufacturing iron and steel , and the amount of money invested in the trade amounts to many millions of pounds sterling . COPPER , BRASS , TIN , AND LEAD . COAL and Iron , though certainly the most valu- able , are not the ...
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... smelting , or the reduction of the ores into nerchantable copper . is in no case carried on at the not where here s mined . There are only two copper - smelting districts in Great Britain - viz . , im Lancashire , in the neighbourhood ...
... smelting , or the reduction of the ores into nerchantable copper . is in no case carried on at the not where here s mined . There are only two copper - smelting districts in Great Britain - viz . , im Lancashire , in the neighbourhood ...
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... smelting works are situated almost entirely in Corn- wall . The lead ores are scattered about the kingdom much more than the copper and tin ores , and are found in different geological strata - viz . , the mountain limestone or ...
... smelting works are situated almost entirely in Corn- wall . The lead ores are scattered about the kingdom much more than the copper and tin ores , and are found in different geological strata - viz . , the mountain limestone or ...
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