IT may be considered singularly fortunate and appropriate that the forthcoming meeting of the British Association in Glasgow exactly coincides with the centenary of James Beaumont Neilson’s epoch-making invention of the use of hot-blast in iron smelting, which was first conceived and demonstrated in that city. For it inaugurated a century of continuous advance in scientific fuel economy, and may be said to have done for iron-smelting what Richard Arkwright’s inventions had previously done for cotton-spinning.

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WAMA.ON,.The Centenary of James B. Neilson's Invention of Hot-Blast in Iron Smelting. 122 (3070),317-319.

WAMA.ON,"The Centenary of James B. Neilson's Invention of Hot-Blast in Iron Smelting" 122

WAMA.ON,"The Centenary of James B. Neilson's Invention of Hot-Blast in Iron Smelting"