In puddling, there is what is called drying the iron, and then it must be melted or refined to make plate metal; during these processes from 15 to 20 per cent is lost.

This article was originally published with the title “ Iron Refining and Puddling Furnaces ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 8 No. 49 (August 1853), p. 385 doi:10.1038 ...

The puddling process consists in placing the pig metal, ... For wrought iron, a quantity of cinder or iron scales, or both, are added to the cinder previously placed and melted on the hearth, ...

BEFORE the introduction of mild steel about sixty years ago, engineers had to rely on wrought iron made by the puddling process introduced by Henry Cort in 1783. Among the various brands of ...

"Puddling", the traditional, tedious and skilful process by which wrought iron is refined, had died everywhere in the world in 1973 apart from at Thomas Walmsley and Sons, Atlas Forge in Bridgeman ...

AN interesting illustrated article on the native working of coal and iron in the province of Shansi, China, appears in Engineering for December 2. In the Ping Ting Chau districts the iron ore is ...

"Puddling", the traditional, tedious and skilful process by which wrought iron is refined, had died everywhere in the world in 1973 apart from at Thomas Walmsley and Sons, Atlas Forge in Bridgeman ...