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  • Thumbnail for Muffle furnace
    A muffle furnace or muffle oven (sometimes retort furnace in historical usage) is a furnace in which the subject material is isolated from the fuel and...
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    realized. A glass melting furnace is made from a refractory material. The glass raw materials are fed to the glass melting tank in batches or continuously...
    16 KB (2,162 words) - 12:32, 2 April 2024
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    production while preserving the creativity of glassmaking. The first tank furnace was constructed and the first presses were installed in 1934. After the...
    21 KB (2,051 words) - 21:37, 12 May 2024
  • 1920. Tank furnaces were essentially large brick pot furnaces with multiple workstations. A tank furnace is more efficient than a pot furnace, but more...
    49 KB (5,243 words) - 07:28, 14 September 2023
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    Carrie Furnace is a former blast furnace located along the Monongahela River in the Pittsburgh area industrial town of Swissvale, Pennsylvania, and it...
    9 KB (700 words) - 06:18, 10 April 2024
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    A furnace (American English), referred to as a heater or boiler in British English, is an appliance used to generate heat for all or part of a building...
    14 KB (1,826 words) - 17:15, 7 April 2024
  • were essentially large brick pot furnaces with multiple workstations. A tank furnace is more efficient than a pot furnace, but more costly to build. One...
    38 KB (3,683 words) - 03:41, 27 May 2024
  • pre-fabricated glass canes, to replicate Venetian traditions. In glass tank furnace we generally used AZS block in bottom section. In 1567, Jean Carré arrived...
    22 KB (2,618 words) - 20:54, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 19th century glass categories in the United States
    enough to produce window glass. In this process, glass is melted in a tank furnace before moving into a trough where it is drawn. The glass is drawn vertically...
    33 KB (3,537 words) - 10:06, 27 April 2024
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    production. 1956: Started continuous production of glass tubing using a tank furnace. 1965: Started production of black-and-white CRT glass. 1968: Started...
    8 KB (438 words) - 17:30, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 19th century glassmaking in the United States
    for the furnace. Cullet can account for 25 to 50 percent of the batch. The batch is placed inside a pot or tank that is heated by a furnace to roughly...
    62 KB (6,815 words) - 21:00, 10 June 2024
  • mass-produced optical glasses (such as borosilicate glass) are melted in tank furnaces for continuous glass production. The glassmaking process comprises a...
    70 KB (7,700 words) - 20:05, 17 May 2024
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    using sinter plants and blast furnaces, or with roasters and reverberatory furnaces. Roasting and reverberatory furnace smelting dominated primary copper...
    63 KB (7,320 words) - 18:51, 20 May 2024
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    Humidifier (section Tanks)
    reservoir (a pan) attached to the furnace. The water level in the pan is controlled by a float valve, similar to a small toilet tank float. The wick is typically...
    32 KB (4,121 words) - 01:00, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tank car
    A tank car (International Union of Railways (UIC): tank wagon) or tanker is a type of railroad car (UIC: railway car) or rolling stock designed to transport...
    18 KB (2,025 words) - 19:00, 16 May 2024
  • Jetstream furnaces (later tempest wood-burning boilers), were an advanced design of wood-fired water heaters conceived by Dr. Richard Hill of the University...
    6 KB (842 words) - 13:51, 16 February 2023
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    and cooling applications such as heat pumps, water heaters, boilers and furnaces. Thermosiphoning also occurs across air temperature gradients such as those...
    14 KB (1,896 words) - 00:22, 9 April 2024
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    boiler used in nearly all steam locomotives. The heat source is inside a furnace or firebox that has to be kept permanently surrounded by the water in order...
    29 KB (4,070 words) - 11:33, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hot water storage tank
    A hot water storage tank (also called a hot water tank, thermal storage tank, hot water thermal storage unit, heat storage tank, hot water cylinder and...
    16 KB (1,987 words) - 20:49, 1 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Central heating
    can both cool and warm interior spaces. A central heating system has a furnace that converts fuel or electricity to heat. The heat is circulated through...
    35 KB (4,576 words) - 16:57, 9 June 2024
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