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Excerpt from Electric Brass Furnace Practice The work has been in three phases: (1) Collection of data, for comparison, on the performance of fuel-fired brass furnaces, which have been published as Bulletin 73 14; (2) experimental work to Show whether zinc losses could be reduced by electric melting, without re gard to the question of whether or not the type of furnace used was likely to be commercially useful, which showed that the losses could be materially reduced, and finally (3) attempts to find out, through laboratory tests. Inspection of commercial furnaces, attendance at commercial tests, and collection of data, what different types of elec tric furnaces have done or may be expected to do under various conditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.