open-hearth furnace
Britishnoun
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A technology this sophisticated was not developed again until nearly 19 centuries later, when German-born Metallurgist Karl Wilhelm Siemens, who is generally credited with using an open-hearth furnace, produced the first high-grade carbon steel.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mr. McCallem said that he believed that the basic process would be worked successfully in this country in the open-hearth furnace before it would be in the converter.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 by Various
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