 | Royal School of Mines (Great Britain) - 1853 - 216 pàgines
...topmost beds above the ironstone lying sometimes ten, eleven, or twelve " yards thick. * * * • » uor indeed could the country well subsist without " such...with pit coal, was also " with raw coal, by one Mr. Blewstonc, a high German, who built his furnace at Wednes" bury, so ingeniously contrived that only... | |
 | Harry Scrivenor - 1854 - 390 pàgines
...attempt which was made about this time is mentioned by Dr. Plot, in his " History of Staffordshire," he says — " The last effort that was made in this country for making iron with pit-coal, was with raw coal, by a Mr. Blewstone, a German, who built his furnace at Wednesbury, so... | |
 | John Nock Bagnall - 1854 - 220 pàgines
...of one single shaft there have been sometimes drawn £500 worth of coal. Nor indeed could the county well subsist without such vast supplies, the wood being most of it spent upon the iron works, for it is here (as well as in other countries that fetch their winter stores from hence)... | |
 | William Newton - 1858 - 430 pàgines
...practically failed. Dr. Plot, in his " History of Staffordshire," published in 1686, states that " the last effort that was made in this country for making iron with pit-coal, was with raw coal, by a Mr. Blewstone, a German, who built his furnace at Wednesbury, so... | |
 | Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) - 1858 - 1332 pàgines
...there have been sometimes drawn £500 worth of coal. Nor could the country well subsist without snch vast supplies, the wood being most of it spent upon the ironworks ; for it is here, as well as in other countries that fetch their winter supply from hence, thought... | |
 | Joseph Beete Jukes - 1859 - 276 pàgines
...or topmost beds above the ironstone lying " sometimes ten, eleven, or twelve yards thick. ***** fjor indeed " could the country well subsist without such...with pit coal, was also with raw coal, by one Mr. Blewstonc, a high German, who built his furnace at Wednesbury, so ingeniously contrived that only the... | |
 | J. D. Kendall - 1893 - 528 pàgines
...success up to that time attending the manufacture of iron with coal ; for Dr. Plott,1 writing in 1686, says : "The last effort that was made in this country for making iron with pit coal was with raw coal by a Mr. Blewstone, a German, who built his furnace at Wednesbury." This last experiment... | |
 | Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) - 1860 - 452 pàgines
...it might be so, for out of one single shaft there have been sometimes drawn £500 worth of coal. Nor could the country well subsist without such vast supplies,...the wood being most of it spent upon the ironworks ; for it is here, as well as in other countries that fetch their winter supply from hence, thought... | |
 | 1857 - 404 pàgines
...have practically failed. Dr. Plot, in his history of Staffordshire, published in 1686, states that " the last effort that was made in this country for making iron with pit coal was with raw coal, by a Mr. Blewstone, a German, who built his furnace at Wednesbury, so ingeniously contrived... | |
 | Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain) - 1857 - 392 pàgines
...have practically failed. Dr. Plot, in his history of Staffordshire, published in 1686, states that "the last effort that was made in this country for making iron with pit coal was with raw coal, by a Mr. Blewstone, a German, who built his furnace at Wednesbury, so ingeniously contrived... | |
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Blcwstone, a high German, who built his furnace at " Wednesbury, so ingeniously contrived that only the flame of the coal should come to " the oare, with several other conveniences, that many were of opinion he would 