บท 152: Problem with earth

4rd May 1574

"Sir, the furnace is hot!"

Standing quite a far distance away from the quarry site, I could see how the first conveyors we implemented in the entire area were pulling huge blocks of limestone towards the grinding machine, where huge steel jaws were crushing them apart, only to spew them on another conveyor that would take a turn around, lead them to another set of jaws, and so on.

Only when the pieces would be as small as the concrete-making process required them to be, the conveyor would lead them to the furnace almost exactly the same as the iron blast furnace, with its only difference being that manual loading was completely replaced by the steam-powered conveyor belts!