The Practical Metal-Worker's Assistant With the Application of the Art of Electrometallurgy to Manufacturing Proceses (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Practical Metal-Worker's Assistant With the Application of the Art of Electrometallurgy to Manufacturing Proceses"The Practical Metal-Worker's Assistant," as now presented to the public, is a new, revised, and very much enlarged, and it is believed, greatly improved edition of a work issued from the press of the present publisher several years since. The volume, as then published, was received at that time with great favor by practical men, and, although the edition has been entirely exhausted for many months, the demand for it has continued unabated. This demand, and the consciousness of the great value of the book, with the knowledge that it will fill a want much felt at this day, have combined in influencing the present publication.Besides the revisal of the text generally, entire and valuable new chapters have been added to the book, among which may be named the following: "On Metallurgic Chemistry" and "Special Metallurgic Operations," by John Scoffern, M. B.; "Recently Patented Refining Processes;" "Wrought-Iron in Large Masses," by William Clay; "Application of Iron to Ship-Building," by William Fairbairn, and several on the various branches of Electro-Metallurgy. It is believed that that on Recently Patented Refining Processes will be found especially interesting and important, on account of the extended statement therein given of the details of Mr. Bessemer's Process of Refining Iron.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.