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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Crow-bar

A steel or iron bar, with one end forged to a wedge. Bars of this kind are usually employed for chiselling, digging, and lifting. When it is desired to make a lever of such bars, for pinching at the backs of wheels, etc., the end should be formed with a "heel," some slight distance back from the point which acts as a fixed fulcrum. See LEVER.

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