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Smelting Furnaces

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Draft letter by Joseph Black, c1783

 Item
Identifier: Coll-16/I/148
Scope and Contents

Draft letter by Joseph Black regarding George Cottrel's blast furnace.

Dates: c1783
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Draft letter by Joseph Black on smelting, c1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/137-141
Scope and Contents

Draft letter by Joseph Black with an account of George Cottrel's experiment in smelting iron by an air furnace.

Dates: c1783
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Draft reply from Joseph Black to Robert Arbuthnott, 1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/144-145
Scope and Contents

Draft reply from Joseph Black to Robert Arbuthnott, secretary to the Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland, in favour of George Cottrel's blast furnace.

Dates: 1783
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I

Letter from Robert Arbuthnott to Joseph Black and James Hutton, 27 June 1783

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Identifier: Coll-16/I/142-143
Scope and Contents

Letter from Robert Arbuthnott, secretary to the Board of Trustees for Fisheries, Manufactures and Improvements in Scotland, to Joseph Black and James Hutton asking their opinions on George Cottrel's blast furnace.

Dates: 27 June 1783
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Joseph Black and family / Correspondence of Joseph Black I