Principles of the Manufacture of Iron and Steel
With Some Notes on the Economic Conditions of their Production

This 1884 manual on the manufacture of iron and steel was written by a leading Victorian industrialist and scientist.

Isaac Lowthian Bell (Author)

9781108026949, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 December 2010

794 pages, 9 b/w illus. 1 table
21.6 x 14 x 4.5 cm, 1 kg

Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell (1816–1904) was a leading metallurgist and industrialist who served as president of both the Iron and Steel Institute and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He combined business skills with scientific expertise and was recognised as a world authority on blast furnace technology. His major works reveal both technical know-how and commercial awareness, and show that he was conscious of the threat to Britain's early lead in industrialisation from foreign competition. He supported free trade, and believed that British industry needed a firm scientific base in order to maintain its global position. Although his posthumous reputation has been eclipsed by that of his contemporaries, he was highly respected in his lifetime, receiving a baronetcy in 1885 for his contribution to industry. This book was first published in 1884 and deals with the economics of iron production in Britain and abroad as well as the processes themselves.

Preface
1. Introductory
2. Historical
3. Direct processes for making malleable iron
4. Preliminary treatment of materials for the blast furnace
5. The blast furnace
6. Of the use and theory of the hot blast
7. On the quantity and quality of the fuel required in the blast furnace using air of different temperatures
8. On the solid products of the blast furnace
9. Chemical changes as they take place in the blast furnace
10. On the equivalents of heat evolved by the fuel in the blast furnace
11. Of hydrogen and certain hydrogen compounds in the blast furnace
12. On the production of malleable iron from pig iron in low hearths
13. On the refining and puddling furnace
14. On more recent methods of separating the substances taken up by iron during its passage through the blast furnace
15. Statistical
16. British labour compared with that of the continent of Europe
17. On labour in the United States of America
18. Chief iron-producing countries compared
Corrections and additions
Index.

Subject Areas: History of engineering & technology [TBX]