. American engineer and railroad journal . ite. Thb graphite industry in the country was founded by JosephDixon in 1S27, when he began the manufacture of black leadcrucibles and completely revolutionized the crucible crucibles used at the present day for melting brass, steel,copper, gold, silver, nickel, etc., are made of black lead (thecommon name for graphite), and by the Dixon process. His successors, the Joseph Dixon Company, have widely ex-tended the business, manufacturing graphite in many formsboth for home sale and export. The works in Jersey City haverecently been much en
. American engineer and railroad journal . ite. Thb graphite industry in the country was founded by JosephDixon in 1S27, when he began the manufacture of black leadcrucibles and completely revolutionized the crucible crucibles used at the present day for melting brass, steel,copper, gold, silver, nickel, etc., are made of black lead (thecommon name for graphite), and by the Dixon process. His successors, the Joseph Dixon Company, have widely ex-tended the business, manufacturing graphite in many formsboth for home sale and export. The works in Jersey City haverecently been much enlarged ; they are shown in the accom-panying engraving. Besides these works the company havea mill for sawing cedar for pencils at Crystal River, Dixon Company are miners as well as importers ofgraphite in all its forms, and use no graphite that they do notmine or prepare. Their mines are located in Ticonderoga,N. y., and they have every facility in the way of chemists andexpensive machinery, etc., necessary for completely freeing. n
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