1835 cold blast charcoal furnace with water wheel & wooden blowing tubs built by Henry Potts & others. About 1880 Joseph D. Potts converted to a steam engine with iron vertical blowing engine and hot blast and increased stack height. Blown out in...
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Table of Contents: The steel test tube; DuPont's new blowing agent; The aristocrat of the silica family; Plastics at home; An uncommon carrier; The gardener's one-two punch; New prints from old; Rolling billboards; Report on our 150th year;...
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Table of Contents: The Truth About Subsoiling With Red Cross Dynamite; Blowing Out a Forest Fire; Fabrikoid in Folding Baby Vehicles; Improving the B. & O. R.R.; Tennessee Girl is Prize Blaster; Planting 80,000 Trees With Dynamite; Prevent Misfires...
Table of Contents: Immigration and the labor supply; Charcoal, sulphur, and saltpeter; Walnut, the cabinet wood superlative; Work of making playthings; Some crudities on coal-tar crudes; Campaigning with Pyralin; Blowing a bank vault.
Table of Contents: A chemical family IV; Blowing the bar; Pioneering in medical service; the way of the Glyd-a-Way; The saga of the Siamese cat; Safeguarding your milk supply; Protection for hands that work; Vat colors make fast friends; For...
Written caption: 1792 Blowing house to the left with pipe stoves for the hot blast in the center with the furnace and stock houses to the right. Note the bell beam at the top of the furnace.
Written caption: Stack and wall of cast house at right. Hot blast stove and blowing engine house at left. Pipe extending into arch of furnace stack is the hot blast main.
1792 Blowing house to the left with pipe stoves for the hot blast in the center with the furnace and stock houses to the right. Note the bell beam at the top of the furnace.
1759 Restoration in progress, Waterwheel restored and in operation. Air pipe from the blowing tubs is seen leading to the single tuyere in the lower portion of the archway. The small arched opening near the top of the furnace was where the...
Left of furnace, steep downcomer to boilers, skip hoist behind, to right of furnace downcomer to hot blast stoves, diagonal pipe in lower center hot blast main to bustle pipe, horizontal pipe in center cold blast main from blowing engine. Note...
Highly ingenious laboratory tools and instruments help DuPont scientists uncover many secrets of nature ordinarily hidden from the human senses. This 'Breath meter' is so sensitive that mere blowing on the steel bar can easily be registered. This...
