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Biringuccio
Making a wooden pattern from which moulds for
Man operating bellows to increase the draught
Reverberatory furnace for smelting metals. (Venice, 1540)
Brass furnace, showing tongs for lifting crucibles
Condensing mercury vapour that has been distilled
Mercury. Stove and pots in which mercury-bearing
Heating mercury-bearing ore and recovering mercury
Mercury. Extracting mercury from ore by placing
Smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. (Venice, 1540)
Using bellows to increase draught in furnace for
Different forms of blast furnace. Bellows supplying
Distillation of alcohol (aqua vitae). (Venice, 1540)
Goldbeaters preparing a thin duplex sheet of silver
Assay laboratory, showing muffle furnace and balance
Bellows operated by a camshaft powered by a water
Charcoal burning: Pit being filled with wood (right)
Charcoal burning: Building pyramid of wood (right)
Moulds for making fire tubes. These were fired
Fire tubes being fired at enemy cavalry from cannon
Wheeled war engine designed to break up enemy
Shafts of a cannon boring machine with drilling
Boring cannon. In the left foreground is a two-man
Pikes and lances fitted with small fire tubes
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