regenerative furnace

noun

1. a furnace in which the incoming air is heated by regenerators.

Word History and Origins

Origin of regenerative furnace¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

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 Project Gutenberg

His next great achievement was the production of steel direct from the raw ores by means of his regenerative furnace, which the President of the Board of Trade in 1883 mentioned in the House of Commons as one of the most valuable inventions ever produced under the protection of the English patent law, and he said further that it was then being used in almost every industry in the kingdom.

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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.

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Regenerative furnace, a gas-furnace in which gas and air are heated before being introduced into the furnace, giving an extremely high temperature—William Siemens, England, 1856.

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This is attained in the regenerative furnace of Siemens, detailed consideration of which belongs more properly to the subject of iron.

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