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Title: Forges or the art of making iron – [4] Fourth section
Original Title: Forges ou art du fer – [4] Quatrième section
Volume and Page: Plates vol. 4 (1765)
Author: Unknown
Translator: Jeremy Platt [AusIMM]
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Citation (MLA): "Forges or the art of making iron – [4] Fourth section." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Jeremy Platt. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.455>. Trans. of "Forges ou art du fer – [4] Quatrième section," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 4 (plates). Paris, 1765.
Citation (Chicago): "Forges or the art of making iron – [4] Fourth section." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Jeremy Platt. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.455 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Forges ou art du fer – [4] Quatrième section," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 4 (plates) (Paris, 1765).

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Fourth Section. Forges.

Plate I: Forges, Fourth Section, General Plan of a Forge with Two Furnaces


Plate II: Forges, Fourth Section, Longitudinal View of the Two-Furnace Forge and Development of the Tilt Hammer


Plate III: Forges, Fourth Section, Transversal View of the Two-Furnace Forge and Plan of the Foundation of the Tilt Hammer


Plate IV: Forges, Fourth Section,Flattening of Dross


Plate V: Forges, Fourth Section, Shingling of Dross


Plate VI: Forges, Fourth Section, Iron Forged Twice


Plate VII: Forges, Fourth Section, Rolling Muddled Iron