Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c24.10
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c24.10
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8. Upon an average about nine tons of coal are expended in England in forming one ton of finished bar iron, and it is probable, that if the above processes were attempted upon any smaller scale than that of the English works, a still greater quantity would be used. Some of these works cost £27,000, and turn out 120 tons of bar iron per week.