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... cost of the raw ore , from whence the article is manufactured , cannot be taken at more than thirty shillings per ton . * * From Dr. Friedenberg's German edition of Mr. Babbage's " Economy of Machinery and Manufactures . " In one of the ...
... cost of the raw ore , from whence the article is manufactured , cannot be taken at more than thirty shillings per ton . * * From Dr. Friedenberg's German edition of Mr. Babbage's " Economy of Machinery and Manufactures . " In one of the ...
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... cost at which their iron is manufactured precludes the possibility of their entering into any extensive competition with our own in foreign markets . In the American alone can they venture to meet us , and there the competition arises ...
... cost at which their iron is manufactured precludes the possibility of their entering into any extensive competition with our own in foreign markets . In the American alone can they venture to meet us , and there the competition arises ...
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... cost him but three shillings at the fur- nace , because that Lough Allen , whereunto the same mines and works are contiguous , gave him the opportunity of carrying the ore by water from the mine unto the works , and that in boats of ...
... cost him but three shillings at the fur- nace , because that Lough Allen , whereunto the same mines and works are contiguous , gave him the opportunity of carrying the ore by water from the mine unto the works , and that in boats of ...
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... cost about 150,000l . , and was mostly paid for by us in money , as was most of the other 5000 tons brought from Russia , and that our exports of wrought - iron were from 3000 to 3500 tons per annum . 2nd . That the iron of the British ...
... cost about 150,000l . , and was mostly paid for by us in money , as was most of the other 5000 tons brought from Russia , and that our exports of wrought - iron were from 3000 to 3500 tons per annum . 2nd . That the iron of the British ...
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... cost per ton ( including customs at 56s . , and freight from 88. to 15s . ) is 177. for Russian , and 187. 10s . for Swedish iron ; but a very fine kind of the latter , the produce of the famous mine of Dannemora , called Oregrund iron ...
... cost per ton ( including customs at 56s . , and freight from 88. to 15s . ) is 177. for Russian , and 187. 10s . for Swedish iron ; but a very fine kind of the latter , the produce of the famous mine of Dannemora , called Oregrund iron ...
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