open-hearth furnace
Britishnoun
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His father, an immigrant from Castile, Spain, spent long days, weeks and years shoveling coal into an open-hearth furnace run by Bethlehem Steel.
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
Steel $64 million to replace a worn-out open-hearth furnace built in 1930 at a cost of $10 million.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In the open-hearth furnace the metal is protected from the flaming gases by a slag covering.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)
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