Preface; Part I. Practical Papers on the Subject of the Manufacture of Crude or Cast Iron: 1. Remarks on Mr. Joseph Collier's Observations on Iron and Steel; 2. On the principles of iron and steel; 3. Historical remarks on the manufacture of iron and steel; 4. On the materials used in the manufacture of pig or cast iron; 5. On the component parts of iron-stones, and how these, in the manufacturing, affect the quality of the cast iron; 6. On primary ores of iron; 7. On the use of calcareous stones in the blast-furnace; 8. Description of a blast-furnace, and that part of the blowing-machine attached to it; 10. On the production of cast iron, and the operations of the blast-furnace; 11. On the relative proportions of coals and iron-stones used in the blast-furnace; 12. On the various effects produced by the nature, compression, and velocity of the air used in the blast-furnace; 13. Description of the air and the water vault employed to equalize the discharge of air into the blast-furnace; 14. On the origin and discovery of iron; 15. On the origin of the blast-furnace; 16. On the progress of the manufacture of iron with pit-coal, and a comparison of the value and effects of pit-coal, wood, and peat-char; Part II. Experimental Papers, Principally Connected with Iron and its Combinations: 1. On the attempts in France to produce steel by means of the diamond and the decomposition of carbonic acid; 2. Remarks upon several experiments made to prove the conversion of iron into steel by means of the diamond; 3. An examination of C. Clouet's process for making cast steel from bar iron by means of the decomposition of the carbonic acid; 4. On the fusion of malleable iron with various kinds of glass; being a continuation of the examination of C. Clouet's process of making cast steel; 5. On the different proportions of carbon which constitute the various qualities of crude iron and steel; 6. Experiments on charcoal exposed to high degress of heat in close vessels; 7. Experiments and observations on the manufacture of malleable iron directly from the ore; 8. Experiments to ascertain the affinities of carbon with clay, lime, and silex, separately or as compounds, united with the oxyde of iron, forming iron ores and iron-stones; 9. Experiments on wootz of Indian steel; 10. Experiments on various earths, undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether they are metallic oxydes; 11. Analysis of various kinds of pit-coal; 12. Experiments relative to coals and coke obtained from wood and pit-coal; 13. Result of some experiments on the distillation of various vegetable and animal substances in the dry way; 14. On the affinity existing between oxydes of carbon and iron; 15. On cast iron and steel, with experiments to ascertain whether manganese may be alloyed with iron; 16. On the deoxydation and reduction of iron ores; 17. Facts illustrative of the shrinkage and expansion of cast iron and steel; 18. On the crystallization of cast-iron; Appendix: Analyses of the coals principally used at the iron works of England and Wales; Tabular statement of the progress of the manufacture of iron, contrasting the effects of cold and heated air in the blast-furnace; Index.
