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.

Table of Contents

A

33 entries

B

68 entries

C

93 entries

D

38 entries

E

18 entries

F

39 entries

G

27 entries

H

37 entries

I

17 entries

J

6 entries

K

5 entries

L

30 entries

M

48 entries

N

13 entries

O

20 entries

P

73 entries

Q

5 entries

R

59 entries

S

138 entries

T

59 entries

U

5 entries

V

9 entries

W

36 entries

Y

4 entries

Z

3 entries

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