Report of the Committee on Science and the Arts on the process and furnace for the reduction of refractory ores, and the production of metals, alloys and compounds, invented by Eugene H., and Alfred H. Cowles

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1886
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 303 KB
• Volume: 122
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(86)90123-7

✦ Synopsis

The CHEMICAL SECTION, acting as a sub-committee of the Committee on Science and the Arts, to which was referred for examination the COWLES process and furnace for the reduction of refractory ores and the production of metals, alloys and compounds ; and further, upon the character of the specimens of aluminium bronze, aluminium brass, aluminium silver, silicon bronze, and so forth, as submitted by the company, presents the following report:

There were offered i~or examination specimens of aluminium ores, aluminium bronze, aluminium silver, aluminium brass, and silicon bronze in ingots, castings, wire and rolled metal, some screws of aluminium brass, knives with blades of aluminium silver and handles of aluminium bronze, and a few other manufactured articles, as well as an ingot of aluminium containing about nine per cent. of silicon. The committee listened to the paper pre-