单词 | puddling furnace |
释义 | > as lemmaspuddling furnace puddling furnace n. Now historical and rare ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > furnaces for melting or refining metals > furnaces for treating iron > puddling furnaces finery1539 finery hearth1693 refinery1750 finery furnace1786 puddling furnace1797 forge-fire1855 boiling-furnace1875 1797 A. Brown Hist. Glasgow II. iii. i. 304 The loss is greater, as the iron separates into a number of globules, which cannot be so well applied for melting in the puddling furnace as larger lumps. 1815 D. Mushet Patent 3944 (1856) 2 Finers' iron, or metal of a quality fit for the purposes of the puddling furnace. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 334 When the cake of metal is broken into lumps of a convenient size, it is taken to the puddling furnace, where it is heated with coals, without the aid of an artificial blast. 1894 Harper's Mag. Feb. 424/2 The introduction of regular puddling-furnaces..occurred in 1816. 1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) liii. 561 The process is called puddling and is carried out in a puddling furnace. 1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 609/2 The last operational iron puddling furnace was recently removed from Bolton to the Coalbrookdale museum after no less than 100 years. 2001 Isis 92 403/1 In 1829 Curtin made his one venture into a new technique by adding a puddling furnace and rolling mill to his works. < as lemmas |
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