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open-hearth furnace
noun
- (esp formerly) a steel-making reverbatory furnace in which pig iron and scrap are contained in a shallow hearth and heated by producer gas
Example Sentences
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.
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.
In the open-hearth furnace the metal is protected from the flaming gases by a slag covering.
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.
The Wilson gas producer, working in conjunction with the open-hearth furnace, had recently produced some extremely wonderful results.
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