regenerative furnace
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of regenerative furnace
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Siemens had spent fourteen years in perfecting this regenerative furnace, and it took him other fourteen to utilise it, and perfect it in making steel direct from the raw ores.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
A diagram of a modern regenerative furnace is shown in Fig.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin
The author had recourse to the regenerative furnace used by his brother, Friedrich, in Dresden, in manufacture of hard glass.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
In his regenerative furnace, as we have seen, he utilised in an ingenious way the heat which would otherwise have escaped with the products of combustion.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
This is attained in the regenerative furnace of Siemens, detailed consideration of which belongs more properly to the subject of iron.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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