The Encyclopedia of Founding

Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.

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Blast-furnace – Broken Castings

Blast-furnace

See SMELTING-FURNACE; CUPOLA; CAST IRON.

Board

An abbreviation of sweep-board. See SWEEP-BOARD.

Bod-stick

Another name for bott-stick. See BOTTSTICK.

Bottom-part

The nowel or drag. See FLASKS.

Bottom-plate

See FOUNDATION-PLATE.

Brass Mixtures

See BRASS.

Brimstone

See SULPHUR.

Broken Castings

See BURNING.

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