METAL-WORKER'S ASSISTANT:

COMPRISING

METALLURGIC CHEMISTRY, THE ARTS OF WORKING ALL METALS AND ALLOYS, FORGING OF
IRON AND STEEL, HARDENING AND TEMPERING, MELTING AND MIXING, CASTING AND
FOUNDING, WORKS IN SHEET METAL, THE PROCESSES DEPENDENT ON THE

DUCTILITY OF THE METALS, SOLDERING, AND THE MOST IMPROVED
PROCESSES, AND TOOLS EMPLOYED BY METAL-WORKERS.

WITH THE

APPLICATION OF THE ART OF ELÈCTRO-METALLURGY

TO

MANUFACTURING PROCESSES:

COLLECTED FROM

ORIGINAL SOURCES, AND FROM THE WORKS OF HOLTZAPFFEL, BERGERON, LEUPOLD,
PLUMIER, NAPIER, SCOFFERN, CLAY, FAIRBAIRN, AND OTHERS.

BY

OLIVER BYRNE.

A NEW, REVISED, AND IMPROVED EDITION.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

THE MANUFACTURE OF RUSSIAN SHEET IRON.

BY JOHN PERCY, M.D., F.R.S.

THE MANUFACTURE OF MALLEABLE IRON CASTINGS, AND
IMPROVEMENTS IN BESSEMER STEEL.

BY A. A FESQUET, CHEMIST AND ENGINEER.

With Six Hundred and Nine Engravings, illustrating every Branch of the Subject.

UNIVERSITY OF

CALP PNIA.

PHILADELPHIA:

HENRY CAREY BAIRD,

INDUSTRIAL PUBLISHER,

406 WALNUT STREET.