open-hearth furnace
Britishnoun
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They said: "We'd like to see General Johnson walk up to an open-hearth furnace and get his summer pants scorched for $21.84 a week."
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, the industry is embracing new methods more rapidly than at any time since the turn of the century when the open-hearth furnace replaced Sir Henry Bessemer's converter as the principal method of steelmaking.
From Time Magazine Archive
As president, he turned his energy to improving efficiency, pushed Inland from eighth to seventh in the industry without adding a single open-hearth furnace.
From Time Magazine Archive
The process not only enables steelmen to cook a batch of steel in 40 minutes instead of six to ten hours in an open-hearth furnace but produces metal with fewer strength-sapping impurities as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
He thought that the Patent Shaft and Axletree Company, at Wednesbury, were at the present moment putting down an open-hearth furnace on the basic process.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 by Various
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