There are only six other copper-works in the kingdom besides those of Swansea, five of which are within fifteen miles of that town; the other is at Amlwch ❋ Various (N/A)
The quantity of coals consumed by the copper-works is enormous. ❋ Various (N/A)
A canal runs up the vale into the country for sixteen miles, to an elevation of 372 feet: it is flanked near the copper-works by many millions of tons of copper slag; and there are no less than thirty-six locks on the line. ❋ Various (N/A)
The workmen at the Swedish melting-house showed the same thing to some travellers in the seventeenth century; for Regnard saw it in 1681, at the copper-works in Lapland. ❋ Harry Houdini (1900)
I saw the copper-works also, and acknowledged the Lord in the gifts and the faculties He hath given to the children of men. ❋ Whyte, Alexander (1894)
This modification is now employed in copper-works in Spain, ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)
From its geographical position and excellent harbour, Swansea was at once selected as the best port on the Welsh coast in which to establish the copper-works; and accordingly, the Swansea valley was soon planted with chimneys, furnaces, roasters, refiners, and, in short, all the necessary and costly enginery which belongs to the vast and intricate processes of smelting copper. ❋ Various (1841)
Few of our readers, who have not enjoyed our opportunities of seeing them, can form any accurate conception of the vast extent and great economical value and importance of the Swansea copper-works. ❋ Various (1841)
The hills, particularly to the southeast of the copper-works, are barren in the extreme. ❋ Various (1841)
[6] Notwithstanding this, we were assured by a gentleman connected with the copper-works, that there is no specific disease arising from copper-smelting, as in the case of lead. ❋ Various (1841)
It is also, beyond comparison, the most beautiful sight in the copper-works. ❋ Various (1841)
The probable amount of wages paid by the smelters is about L.135,000; and the current expenditure of the copper-works in the aggregate exceeds ❋ Various (1841)
To us it was a change, a relief inexpressibly delightful, to emerge from the Stygian regions of the copper-works, where for the last five or six days we had wandered like an 'unshriven spirit,' and to find ourselves in contemplation of the happy faces of the scholars, and to hear the hopeful, encouraging tones of their intelligent teachers. ❋ Various (1841)
Leaving the town, and pursuing our way northwards for two miles towards Neath, we reach the copper-works. ❋ Various (1841)
Our first glimpse of the copper-works was obtained in the 'gloaming' of a lovely night in August last year, as we rattled over the Landore viaduct of the South Wales Railway. ❋ Various (1841)
Part of it is occasionally cast into iron moulds, shaped like old Gothic arches, only uglier; and the casts are applied in great quantity as coping-stones to the walls and fences in the regions of the copper-works. ❋ Various (1841)
