Show floating eat Zat batteries teries for the baltic shot proof i iron elates hates A the british government has entered into a contract ar tuf the manufacture of about 2000 tuns auns of enormous plates made of the best scrap iron irony with which batteries are to be covered so as effectual effectually ix to render them proof against the heaviest shot the can throw these plates vary fro from m 8 6 to 12 fett in lime an are from 21 to 26 inches broad and about 4 12 1 2 I 1 idl ial MM thick each plate peate will wiil weigh from about a mma and an to three tens and it ater mer men ren heing being acted they ere ire to bk bb to the of the floating batteries from ei hits fits carefully made it appears that iron plats plates of the n tl here hene mentioned no toniy tonis tOnly resla resia resin thi the beat beay heaviest lest iest shob shod abr them in pieces ibn they strike so urgen urgent tAre are the authorities ties to have the batteries reedy teady for artive active op au s against hussla in the bortay that the can t rac t Ss s ix divided amongst the principal makers maters in jn glas glasca Gl N castle Low moor and other places in n the N of land the operation of making maung plates I 1 Is ous in one corner of the yard Is abug a huse huge pile sk crap id ura all ati sorts but bet including a vast quantity at t birc I 1 rl C punched out of the rivet holes boles of vollen volien and nahi nahl and also clippings gs irom from iron plates after alter fettig bang frees trees from rubbish rubush they are arp carefully piled plied on tadues of el oldS j t A ln 11 sheet iron imon about a foot ian las long 10 inches broad ard d 5 inches high the largest bits being placed round themar mar gin and the ittie little pieces in the centre in to th states the th pils pile Is put into a furnace phere n here it poon soon a weldine heat beat it Is then withdrawn and pug put tender lender a tiit tut hammer called the shingling machine where the whole Is hani hanl hammered into something like a homogenous mass several of these flattened lumis jumps lumps are piled plied on each other heated again and put under the same tame hammer until the whole Is welded together several of these larger masses are next subjected to the same process until they assume the size and form requisite for tor being converted into a bar a shaft or a plate only that when the lump of 0 iron becomes too large for the ordinary shingling machine it Is forged under a steam hammer scientific american |