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Item Description
This Ebay listing is for the sale of a CD ROM publication of a Ironwork Art Smiting Handbook
originally published in 1896.
You can read the detailed content pages further down this page.
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1896 Handbook of Art Smithing for use of practical smiths, ironwork designers and technical and art schools and Architects. Written by F. S. Meyer. 196 pages
Contents
Introduction
I Concerning the material
Iron in general
Pig Iron and cast iron
Steel
Wrought iron
Malleable cast iron
The various kinds of iron used in trade by artistic iron workers. Bar iron, fancy iron, sheet iron, iron wire, iron tubes
II Tools and workmanship
Tools and machinery
The manipulation and treatment of wrought iron
The ordinary iron combinations
The minutiae and details which occur most frequently in artistic iron work
III The Historical development of artistic smithing
The antique
The mediaeval
The renaissance
The Baroque
The Rococo
The Louis XVI and Empire styles
The present day
IV The Principal Spheres of the smith
Grilles and balustrades
Doors and gates
Hinges and Mountings
Locks and Keys
Gargoyles, and Hanging Signs
Candelabras, Candlesticks, Chandeliers, Coronas and Lanterns
Wash stands and Flower stands
Crosses for graves and towers
Arms and Armour
All other objects in iron
Supplement:
Tables of Weights and Measures
German Wire-scale (millimeter-scale)
Table shewing the dimensions and weights of wrought iron gas-barrel
Table of weights of round bar iron
Table of weights for square bar iron
Table of weights for flat bar iron per linear meter in kilogrammes.
Review:
Written at the time when steam engine and rail and the industrial revolution were in full acceleration, this book
is full of a mix of history, designs, reflections on the economics of the art and science of technology of the times.
with terms both quaint and useful - such as "fructification" and such - it is both educational and enjoyable read.
For those who are historians it has components that are useful documentation of costs and economics and methods of the day.
For those who are artists, designers, architects, and others who envision - it has tons of wonderful drawings.
For those who want to know and learn metals and technology for manipulating and creating smithing art, there is adequate basic instruction in iron and metallurgy to tools of the time.
This one does not act as a general or basic blacksmithing guide nor tell you in detail how to make each design. Though hundreds of designs are shown.
Methods of joining and bending and such are discussed as they related to design issues.
It is assumed the reader is already basically a smithy or is more interested in the base knowledge, economics, methods, tools, and most importantly,
the designs.
Great book for designs.
Many of these designs are intricate, world class and classic and are not first projects for your freshly installed workshop and anvil.
Enjoy this one.
I learned a lot about designs, methods ...
Love it! have to admit I am more than a little humbled at even thinking about tacking some of the more intricate designs.
SO whether you are a historian, smithy, or artist or architect, you can learn a gaggle from this.
Enjoy !
Presented in easy to view PDF file format.
Allows Zoom-in up to 300% to enlarge sections of the pages for easy reading.
Allows Printing of pages on your own printer.
Allows Copy and paste page image to other applications like a word processor or image editors.
(PDF files require PDF file reader to open and view. PDF file reader software can be downloaded for free at www. adobe. com)
User friendly PDF file format, the CD is Microsoft Windows as well as MAC compatible.
We also have another CD title on blacksmithing, you can find it in our ebay store under "Blacksmithing Ebooks"
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