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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Equipment

General appliances, tools, and machinery necessary for conducting a foundry or other manufacturing establishment.

Evaporation generally signifies the dissipation of the volatile parts of a compound body. Natural evaporation is the conversion of water into vapor, which, in consequence of becoming lighter than the atmosphere, is raised considerably above the earth, and afterwards, by a partial condensation, forms clouds. See VAPOR.

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