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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Cast

A term used among fine-art workers, meaning impressions from sculptures, medals, and other delicate works of art; also, the taking of casts from the face and other natural objects. See PLASTER-CAST. Cast is a common term in the foundry; as, when a piece has been poured, it is said to be cast; when a moulder has finished pouring as many moulds as constitute a day's product, he is considered to be cast off.

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