Most U.S. steel is made in massive, slow-acting, open-hearth furnaces. Last week U.S. Steel Corp. announced tests of a new type of furnace which makes the same kinds of steel a great deal faster.

479, of the use of aluminium powder for flow visualization in a water model of an open hearth furnace. It has since been shown that part of the pattern was due to air bubbles, and that if these ...

Trans. Ceramic Soc., 33, 104 (1934). "A Co-operative Investigation of the Factors Influencing the Durability of the Roofs of Basic Open-Hearth Furnaces". Report by the Open-hearth Refractories ...

Encouraged by the seemingly inexhaustible demand for the semi-finished product, every little iron company that owns a blast furnace is preparing to go into open-hearth steel production.

"When I hired in, there were 16,000 workers at Inland," steelworker David Vance said. "When I retired, there were 6,000. The ...

The Open-Hearth Furnace By the turn of the century, most of Carnegie's steel came from vast brick ovens called open-hearth furnaces. They were the future of steel-making. In 1890 at Homestead ...

There was less lifting of dead weight on the blast-furnace jobs than on the open-hearth. Besides, I wanted to see the beginning of the making of steel — the first transformation the ore catches ...

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The Friends of Hopewell Furnace President Gene Delaplane announces a new campaign to raise funds to restore open hearth cooking at the Hopewell Furnace Boarding House. The campaign seeks to raise ...