open-hearth furnace
Britishnoun
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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
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
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
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
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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