Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from their Ores and Adapting them to Various Purposes of Manufacture. Iron and Steel.

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John Percy (1817-1889) was an English physician and metallurgist. He invented a method of extracting silver from its ores, and proposed other important metallurgical processes and improvements. He started teaching in 1851, resigning his post at the Royal School of Mines in 1879.

In 1851 Percy analysed a large number of specimens of iron and steel collected by his friend Samuel Holden Blackwell, the results being published in volume two (1864) of his five volume work, The Art of Extracting Metals from their Ores and Adapting them to Various Purposes of Manufacture (London, 1861-1880). This work was highly influential in the world of metallurgy. Volume four, presented here includes sections on ; Physical properties of Iron; Indirect Extraction of Iron in the State of Cast-Iron from the Ore; On the Production of Malleable Iron from Cast-Iron; Steel and a Sketch of the History of Iron. The work being illustrated by the draughtsman, R.W. Mallett and engraved by James Cooper.

During his lifetime Percy made a collection of over 3700 metallurgical specimens, most of which were purchased by the South Kensington Museum, London in1889.

Condition

8vo orig. cloth, spine flaping. From the Herbert Lister Bowman Library, Laboratory of Mineralogy, University of Oxford. Paper label with manuscript note to endpaper, 'Presented to Prof. Miers by Prof. N.H.M. Story-Maskelyne'.

Prof. Sir Henry A. Miers (1858-1942) was Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy, Oxford University, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester and Professor of Crystallography. Prof. N. Story-Maskelyne (1823-1911), full name Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, was Professor of Mineralogy, 1856-95, University of Oxford, and Keeper of Minerals at the British Museum, 1857-1880. Fair

Newspaper article from The Times, 1866, concerning the Krupp's Steel Works at Essen, loosley inserted. Good.