If you want to do casting at home, you’ll need a way to melt metal. [Jake]’s DIY foundry ... check out the overview of the device and a demo of melting aluminium.

Kelley says the impact on the community was one like nobody has seen, not just producing tin plate but a great American melting pot. "We had so many ethnic groups come from out of the country ...

God, Zangwill claimed, was using America as “a crucible” to melt the “fifty” barbarian tribes of Europe into a metal from which He can cast Americans. Today, the melting pot metaphor is ...