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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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Iron Furnace

A furnace in which some operation connected with the manufacture of cast iron, malleable iron, or steel is conducted; as cupola, smelting, reverberatory furnaces, etc. The several furnaces employed for this purpose will be found described in their regular order.

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