 Vanbrugh in 1719; it contains three furnaces, with extensive means for making moulds and weighing the materials used in forming the ordnance ; the largest furnace will melt about seventeen tons of metal at one time. At the back of the foundry is a building...  A guide to Woolwich - Page 6by John Grant - 1841 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1808 - 882 pages
...convey the water from the roofs. ID the Foundery are three furnaces, and a machine for boring cannon : the largest furnace will melt about seventeen tons of metal at one time. From the improvements that have been made in the operation of casting, all danger of explosion is avoided,... | |
 | George Frederick Cruchley - 1842 - 320 pages
...howitzers, which was erected by Sir John Vanburgh in 1719 ; it contains three furnaces, with extensive means for making moulds and weighing the materials used...forming the ordnance ; the largest furnace will melt aboutseventeen tons of metal at one time. At the back of the foundry is a building for boring cannon... | |
 | 1844 - 320 pages
...foundry was erected by Sir John Vanburgh, and finished in 1719. It contains three furnaces. The largest will melt about seventeen tons of metal at one time....this extent took place, the quantity of metal being upwards of sixteen tons, amongst which was an old brass gun cast in the same foundry by M. Schalch,... | |
 | G. F. Cruchley - 1847 - 364 pages
...howitzers, which was erected by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1719; it contains three furnaces, with extensive means for making moulds and weighing the materials used...will melt about seventeen tons of metal at one time. At the back of the foundry is a building for boring cannon ; this operation is also performed in another... | |
 | G. F. Cruchley - London (England) - 1850 - 344 pages
...howitzers, which was erected by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1719; it contains three furnaces, with extensive means for making moulds and weighing the materials used...will melt about seventeen tons of metal at one time. At the back of the foundry is a building for boring cannon ; this operation is also performed in another... | |
 | G. F. Cruchley - London (England) - 1851 - 372 pages
...contains three furnaces, with extensive means for making moulds and weighing the materials used in casting the ordnance ; the largest furnace will melt about seventeen tons of metal at one time. At the back of the foundry is a building for boring cannon ; this operation is also performed in another... | |
 | George Frederick Cruchley - London (England) - 1851 - 372 pages
...contains three furnaces, with extensive means for making moulds and weighing the materials used in casting the ordnance; the largest furnace will melt about seventeen tons of metal at one time. At the back of the foundry is a building for boring cannon ; this operation is also performed in another... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - Military art and science - 1853 - 388 pages
...and the late military academy. In the former are three furnaces, and a machine for boring cannon ; the largest furnace will melt about seventeen tons of metal at one time. In another quadrangular range of building, at a short distance from the foundry, are other boring machines,... | |
 | H S Brooke - 1856 - 312 pages
...; which was erected by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1719 ; it contains throe furnaces, with extensive means for making moulds and weighing the materials used...will melt about seventeen tons of metal at one time. At the back of the foundry is a building for boring cannon ; this operation is also performed in another... | |
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