History of the Iron Trade: From the Earliest Records to the Present Period |
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advantage American annually anthracite average bar-iron bars bellows bill Blaenavon blast furnaces boshes Britain British brought called cast cast-iron cent charcoal coal coke colonies commerce consequence considerable consumption copecs cost district dols duty effect employed engine England English erected exported facture feet foreign iron Forest of Dean forests forges foundries France fuel hammer heat hot blast House imported improvement increase interest invention Ireland iron manufacture iron mines iron trade iron with pit-coal iron-works ironmasters ironstone kilogrammes kingdom labour land laws manu manufacture of iron materials melting metal miles millimetres mineral nations operation patent period pig-iron pigs poods port present produce proprietors quantity of iron quintals railway reduced Russia Scotland sea-coal ships smelting South Wales Staffordshire supply Sweden tariff tilt hammer timber tion tons of iron Total unto vessels wood workmen وو
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Page 202 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Page 222 - The soundest maxims of public policy and the principles upon which our republican institutions are founded, recommend a proper adaptation of the revenue to the expenditure, and they also require that the expenditure shall be limited to what, by an economical administration, shall be consistent with the simplicity of the government, and necessary to an efficient public service.
Page 235 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights...
Page 212 - When this shall be done our population will be relieved from a considerable portion of its present burthens, and will find not only new motives to patriotic affection, but additional means for the display of individual enterprise. The fiscal power of the States will also be increased, and may be more extensively exerted in...
Page 120 - When at length every thing was prepared, it was found that the machinery would not act,— at all events, it did not answer the sole end of its erection — it would not split the bar of iron. "Foley disappeared again, and it was concluded that shame and mortification at his failure had driven him away for over.
Page 201 - Union, at a time and place to be agreed on, to take into consideration the trade of the United States; to examine the relative situations and trade of the said States; to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony; and to report to the several States, such an act relative to this great object, as, when unanimously ratified by them, will enable the United States in Congress effectually to provide for the same...
Page 72 - Colonies in America, and to prevent the Erection of any Mill or other Engine for slitting or rolling of Iron, or any plating Forge to work with a Tilt Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel in any of the said Colonies...
Page 89 - ... that if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam, and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids, the steam, as an elastic fluid, would immediately rush into the empty vessel, and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium ; and if that vessel were kept very cool by an injection or otherwise, more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed.
Page 199 - Courcil for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from...
Page 222 - ... The final removal of this great burden from our resources, affords the means of further provision for all the objects of general welfare and public defence which the constitution authorises, and presents the occasion for such further reduction in the revenue as may not be required for them. From the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, it will be seen that, after the present year, such a...