The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42

Metallurgy

Metallurgy.

The Lectures will treat of—
( a.) Fuel, furnaces, crucibles, retorts, fluxes.
  • Coal—the different varieties.
  • Charcoal—its manufacture in kilns, heaps, ovens.
  • Coke—its manufacture in mounds, ovens, &c.
  • The description of the different kinds of furnaces: The blast furnace—hot blast, cold blast; rever-beratory furnace, oxidizing and reducing furnaces, puddling furnace, refinery, calcining furnace, liquation furnace, assay furnace, Siemen's gas furnace; materials for furnaces and crucibles— e.g., fire-stone, fire-clay, fire-bricks; the different kinds of crucibles and retorts; determination of the heating power of different kinds of fuel.
( b.) Extraction of metals from their ores,
( c.) Physical and chemical properties of the metals.
( d.) Industrial applications of the metals.