open-hearth furnace
Britishnoun
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Chairman Ernest Tener Weir is strong for hardboiled, hard-driving executives who, like himself, got their higher education at an open-hearth furnace, not in a classroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because it takes barely half an hour to cook a batch of LD steel, v. eight hours in the conventional, open-hearth furnace, the oxygen process melts the costs of labor, power and fuel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Don Nelson remembered a West Coast shipbuilder, Henry Kaiser, who had popped up nine months earlier with a project for building an open-hearth furnace on the Coast, had been gently waved aside.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the dust of battle lifted like smoke from an open-hearth furnace, the nation's press last week assigned itself the task of reckoning the casualties, the cost and, most importantly, the meaning of the fight.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Wilson gas producer, working in conjunction with the open-hearth furnace, had recently produced some extremely wonderful results.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 by Various
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