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Lead smelting, 1556.

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Smelting of ores (gold, silver, copper and lead), 1556.

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Blast furnace for smelting iron ore, 1556.

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Stamp for breaking copper cupellation cakes for further refining, 1556.

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Stamping and roasting ore to extract metal, 1556.

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Bellows supplying draught to a smelting furnace, 1556.

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Smelting iron and hammering bars with a mechanical hammer, 1556.

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Roasting copper ore in a furnace at C, 1556.

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Refining copper: removing cakes of copper from the crucible and quenching in a tub of water, 1556.

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Producing salt by evaporating natural brine by pouring it into a pit of burning charcoal, 1556

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Steel production: a forge with bellows to produce draught, 1556.

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Crushing gold bearing ores in mills similar in principle to flour mills, 1556.

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Evaporating sea water in iron pots to obtain salt, 1556.

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Draining a mine using a series of suction pumps powered by a water wheel, 1556.

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Sectional view of a German mine, 1556.

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Pump powered by men in a treadmill, 1556.

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Washing for tin, 1556.

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Reversible hoist for raising leather buckets from a mine shaft, 1556.

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Producing salt by evaporating sea water in salt pans, 1556.

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Sectional view of a mine showing shafts and galleries, 1556.

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Separating lead from silver or gold in a cupellation furnace, 1556.

Separating lead from silver or gold in a cupellation furnace, 1556. The Foreman consumed quantities of butter to avoid being poisoned (to prevent absorption of lead in the stomach). From De re metallica by Agricola (Georg Bauer). (Basel, 1556).

Unique Identifier AR922608

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 3803px × 3715px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

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Black and white

cupellation furnace

GEORGIUS AGRICOLA

Health and safety

industrial disease

Oxford Science Archive

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SIXTEENTH CENTURY