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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Electric Crane

A substitution of the dynamo-electric machine for the steam or other methods usually employed for the purpose of working cranes. These cranes have met with almost universal favor, and are a marvellous improvement on some antiquated specimens which have been removed to allow of their introduction. They are eminently adapted for foundry purposes. See CRANES.

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