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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Metallurgy

In a limited sense metallurgy includes only the operations attendant on the separation of metals from their ores; but it really comprehends the whole art of working metals, from the mining of the ore to the production of the manufactured article. See METALS; MINERALS; ORES; REDUCTION OF METALS.

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