Blast furnace. This is Katherine Furnace,Boiling Springs,Pennsylvania,USA. It was built in 1881. From left are the blowing house,furnace,hot blast stove,cast house,and stock house. Dating from the early 1900s,this photograph is from the Albert T. Keller collection of the American Iron and Steel Institute. The collection consists of historical photographs of blast furnaces used in the iron and steel industry. A blast furnace is where iron ore is heated to high temperatures in the presence of oxygen,with the carbon content controlled to produce types of steel (an alloy of iron and carbon) | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Hagley Museum And Archive |
Taille de l’image : | 3839 px × 2736 px |
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