A Practical Treatise On The Manufacture Of Portland Cement

Author : William Alden Brown
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ISBN 13 : 9781330454053
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Portland Cement Industry written by William Alden Brown and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Portland Cement Industry: A Practical Treatise on the Building, Equipping, and Economical Running of a Portland Cement Plant; With Notes on Physical Testing After this terrible War is over, in which we are fighting for the highest conception of humanity, "Right against Might," and our efforts, combined with those of our gallant Allies, have been crowned with success, the industrial war with our trade competitors will dominate and express our national needs. We shall assuredly suffer crushing commercial defeat if advantage is not taken by British manufacturers to study, adopt, and improve methods of economical production which our rivals have long practised. Neglect, delay, or failure in the attempt will lose to Great Britain the markets of the world for Portland Cement. It is imperative that we should view with detachment the methods of our fathers if we are to be free to rise to the heights of modern practices, and to strive for the mastery in the perfection and dominion of our products. Let us not sit in our office chairs bemoaning our fate and consenting to our trade passing to other countries, but let us get busy in our industrial departments, and to order add progress. For the cement manufacturer the immediate future has immense potentialities. Much time and pains have been given to ensure accuracy in this treatise, to divest it of scientific technicalities, and to present! a clear, simple, and realistic description of the actual and economical manufacture of a building material which is of fundamental and supreme importance. I acknowledge indebtedness to the Council of the South Wales Institute of Engineers for permission to include from their Proceedings, vol. xxxi, No. 4, my "Notes on the subject of Testing Portland Cement;" to Mr. H. R. Cox, M. C. I., for kindred matter; and to Mr. J. A. Towers for data on Power Plants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.