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September 6, 1991. The Scranton Iron Furnaces is an historic, American manufacturing site that preserves the rich heritage of iron making in Pennsylvania. It is located in Scranton, near the Steamtown National Historic Site. The site has been managed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission since 1971 and is part of the Pennsylvania ...
A metallurgical furnace, often simply referred to as a furnace when the context is known, is an industrial furnace used to heat, melt, or otherwise process metals. Furnaces have been a central piece of equipment throughout the history of metallurgy; processing metals with heat is even its own engineering specialty known as pyrometallurgy.
Electric arc furnace. An electric arc furnace (the large cylinder) being tapped. Rendering of exterior and interior of an electric arc furnace. An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats material by means of an electric arc. Industrial arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one-tonne capacity (used in foundries ...
Catharine Furnace was founded and built by Fredericksburg Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company, a joint-stock company chartered in 1836, and owned by Francis B. Deane, John Heth, John S. Wellford, Edward H. Carmichael and William Crump with an undivided fifth interest each. Wellford was the financial backer of the company as well as the manager ...
Iron metallurgy may have been independently developed in the Nok culture between the 9th century BCE and 550 BCE. [5][6] The nearby Djenné-Djenno culture of the Niger Valley in Mali shows evidence of iron production from c. 250 BCE. The Bantu expansion spread the technology to Eastern and Southern Africa between 500 BCE and 400 CE, as shown in ...
The Fitchburg Furnace is a historic iron furnace located in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Estill County, KY. / 37.7327; -83.8524. The furnace is the world's largest charcoal iron furnace and the last to be built in Kentucky. The structure was state of the art in its time. With core of the furnace consisted of twin stacks built of local ...
Codorus Forge and Furnace Historic District. / 40.05139°N 76.65722°W / 40.05139; -76.65722. Codorus Forge and Furnace Historic District, also known as Hellem (Hellam) Forge, is a historic iron forge and national historic district located at Hellam Township in York County, Pennsylvania. The district includes four contributing buildings ...
The tatara (鑪) is a traditional Japanese furnace used for smelting iron and steel. The word later also came to mean the entire building housing the furnace. The traditional steel in Japan comes from ironsand processed in a special way, called the tatara system. [1] Iron ore was used in the first steel manufacturing in Japan.