Thomas Symes Prideaux: On Economy of Fuel, Particularly with Reference to Reverberatory Furnaces for the Manufacture of Iron, and to Steam Boilers (Classic Reprint)
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Author: Thomas Symes Prideaux
Number of Pages: 148 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781330795781
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