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    steel. Their process was known as the Siemens–Martin process or Martin–Siemens process, and the furnace as an "open-hearth" furnace. Most open hearth...
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  • Thumbnail for Inland Steel Company
    landmark Inland Steel Building. Inland Steel was an integrated steel company that reduced iron ore to steel. It specialized in the basic open hearth steelmaking...
    36 KB (4,854 words) - 16:24, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bessemer process
    industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. The key principle is removal of...
    35 KB (4,333 words) - 18:25, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wrought iron
    introduction of Bessemer and open hearth steel, there were different opinions as to what differentiated iron from steel; some believed it was the chemical...
    52 KB (6,410 words) - 06:50, 19 April 2024
  • 86284°W / 38.02664; -121.86284 (Pittsburg steel plant)) had a monthly output of 800 tons open hearth steel and employed 375. In February 1920 a new rolling...
    16 KB (2,002 words) - 13:34, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Great Deflation
    leading economies. The new leading industries were Bessemer and open hearth steel, railroads, the machinery industry, efficient steam shipping and animal...
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  • Thumbnail for Steel
    production of crucible steel. This was followed by the Bessemer process in England in the mid-19th century, and then by the open-hearth furnace. With the invention...
    64 KB (7,116 words) - 19:06, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Forge
    A forge is a type of hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace (smithy) where such a hearth is located. The forge is used by the smith to heat...
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  • Thumbnail for SAE steel grades
    "C" denotes open-hearth furnace, electric arc furnace or basic oxygen furnace steels, while "E" specifies only electric arc furnace steel. A letter "L" within...
    24 KB (1,533 words) - 22:40, 15 May 2024
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    anchoring, have body walls of material equivalent to at least 1" open hearth steel with a minimum tensile strength of 50,000 P.S.I. The UL Standard for...
    23 KB (2,826 words) - 21:21, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kaiser Steel
    (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Kaiser Steel was a steel company and integrated steel mill near Fontana, California. Industrialist Henry J...
    52 KB (6,168 words) - 19:26, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Basic oxygen steelmaking
    of up to 400 tons and convert it into steel in less than 40 minutes, compared to 10–12 hours in an open hearth furnace. The basic oxygen process developed...
    14 KB (1,894 words) - 13:45, 26 May 2024
  • European and American markets. The introduction of cheap steel was due to the Bessemer and the open hearth processes, two technological advances made in England...
    53 KB (7,183 words) - 06:55, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Puddling (metallurgy)
    one element of a slightly earlier process. This involved another kind of hearth known as a 'refinery' or 'running out fire'. The pig iron was melted in...
    19 KB (2,713 words) - 20:57, 7 March 2024
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    Steelmaking (redirect from Steel making)
    minutes compared to 10–12 hours in an open hearth furnace. Electric arc furnace steelmaking is the manufacture of steel from scrap or direct reduced iron melted...
    35 KB (4,144 words) - 15:35, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the iron and steel industry in the United States
    the rise of very large integrated steel mills. In the 20th century, the US industry successively adopted the open hearth furnace, then the basic oxygen steelmaking...
    26 KB (2,482 words) - 08:23, 1 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Multiple hearth furnace
    multiple hearth furnace also known as a vertical calciner, is used for continuous preparation and calcining of materials. The multiple hearth furnaces...
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  • Thumbnail for Carnegie Steel Company
    demolished in 1952. Carnegie Steel made major technological innovations in the 1880s, especially the installation of the open hearth furnace system at Homestead...
    11 KB (900 words) - 14:01, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Round Oak Steelworks
    Oak Steel Works. Steel was produced at the works using basic electric arc and open hearth methods. Principal products included alloy and carbon steel bars...
    15 KB (1,704 words) - 20:20, 15 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crucible steel
    is packed in crucibles or a hearth with charcoal, then heated to promote diffusion of carbon into the iron to produce steel. Carburization is the basis...
    37 KB (5,001 words) - 00:26, 8 March 2024
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