Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s2.28
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s2.28
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According to Chapter XV,⁴⁵ 140 seers of charcoal produced 70 seers of crude iron at Aggeriya, etc., in the district of Jabalpur. At Jowli, in the same district, 165 seers of charcoal were required to produce 77 seers of crude iron. How much charcoal was required to convert the crude into malleable and wrought iron is not indicated in Chapter XV. However, considering that the amount of charcoal required to convert the ore into crude iron is of the same order as the quantities required in European countries, it may be inferred that the requirement of fuel in subsequent processes would not have been very different.