open-hearth furnace
Britishnoun
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Dr. Locke was born in Detroit on April 30, 1934, his mom a housewife, his dad working an open-hearth furnace at the Ford Motor Company.
From Seattle Times
In the summer of 1919, a few weeks before the Great Steel Strike, I bought some second-hand clothes and went to work on an open-hearth furnace near Pittsburgh to learn the steel business.
From Project Gutenberg
In the open-hearth furnace the metal is protected from the flaming gases by a slag covering.
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At the distant end of the plaza, over the heads of the crowd, I could see the piles and tracks of an overhead crane, towering above what looked like an open-hearth furnace.
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The Wilson gas producer, working in conjunction with the open-hearth furnace, had recently produced some extremely wonderful results.
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