British Manufactures. Metals
Details:
- Author(s) Dodd, George
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1845
- Pages 224pp; illus
- Publisher Charles Knight
- Place Published London
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Largely describes production processes and, to lesser extent, products, sometimes within the context of a visit to a production district /plant. Has sections: 'Iron - the mine, the foundry and the forge'; 'The conversion of iron into steel and of steel into cutlery'; ' Files, saws, wire, screws, nails, pens, swords, guns and needles - examples of iron and steel manufactures'; 'Copper, brass, mixed metal - bells, pins and buttons'; 'Tin, tinplate, lead, lead shot'; 'Gold, silver, trinkets, plate, Sheffield plate, electroplate'; 'Zinc, mercury, plantinum, nickel, bismuth, antimony, etc'