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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Cisterns

A tank, artificially constructed for holding liquids. Foundry cisterns should be spacious and of sufficient number to accommodate every need. Their efficiency is enhanced when provided with a ball-cock which will automatically maintain a certain height of water at all times, with no possibility of flooding the foundry floor.

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