Furnaces Collection

Industry / Metals / Steel
A modern steelworks - iron running out of the blast furnaces in which iron ore has been blasted to yield molten pig-iron

BOILERS
Babcock & Wilcox boilers at the Standard Oil Companys refinery at Greenpoint, Long Island, New York [USA]

Iron & Steel Co, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
Blast furnaces and open hearth, Dominion Iron & Steel Company, Sydney Harbour, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. Date: circa 1905

How the coal strike affected the iron industry
The coal strike affected the iron industry by shutting it down as the furnaces did not have enough resources to keep going. The iron furnaces in this period were forced to shut, Date: 1912

Stokers feed the furnaces of HMS Kent while she pursues the German ship Nurnberg after the Battle of the Falkland Islands. Date: 1914

Furnaces used for experiments and tobacco pipe manufacture
Furnaces used by David Mushet for his experiments on iron and steel, and used for tobacco pipe manufacture. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey Jr

Roman city of Bath, underfloor heating system

Steel Casting at Fitzalan Steel Works, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Interior of a steel casting at Fitzalan Steel Works, Sheffield. Two men draw crucibles of molten metal from furnaces. Two others pour the metal into moulds to produce ingots. Date: 1844

SUMMERLEA IRONWORKS
Coal wagons at night outside the blast furnaces at Summerlea Ironworks in Glasgow Date: circa 1870

GLASS 18TH CENTURY 14
GLACES SOUFFLEES Blown glass : furnaces for reheating the glass while shaping the object Date: 1765

GLASS 18TH CENTURY 13
GLACES SOUFFLEES Blown glass : the furnaces Date: 1765

The Royal Mint - Annealing Furnaces. Date: circa 1908

Open Hearth Furnaces, National Tube Co. Lorain, Ohio, USA Date: circa 1906

The Black Country Scene
The sky at night is lit up by the foundries, furnaces and factories of the Black Country - the region around Wolverhampton and Dudley in the west midlands of England

Water-powered furnace bellows
A water wheel operates two sets of bellows to keep two furnaces burning hotly. Date: 1588

Blast Furnace 2
Blast furnaces at Colebrookdale, Shropshire (now spelt Coalbrookdale)

Furnaces for Firing China, Belleek Potteries
Furnaces forFiring China, Belleek Potteries - an outside view of the furnace chimneys and building with a man for scale. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Fermanagh: Belleek)

Chemical Apparatus 2
Furnaces - distilling (centre), digesting (mid left), smelting (lower right) and other types Date: 18th century

Chemical Apparatus
Early chemical equipment, mainly furnaces of various kinds - an assay furnace, an athanor, and a reverberatory among others Date: 18th century

Elegant Bakery Furnaces
The elegant furnaces of the mechanical bakery in the Avenue de l Opera, Paris Date: 1885

GERMAN BROTFABRIK
Mass production - a long row of furnaces in a German Brotfabrik Date: early 20th century

Blast Furnaces, Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, USA
Blast Furnaces, Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, USA Date: 1937

Factory filled with equipment to smelt metal
A factory filled with equipment to smelt metal. From: Commercium philosophico-technicum; or, the philosophical commerce of arts: designed as an attempt to improve arts, trades, and manufactures

Japan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - The Assay Furnaces Date: circa 1910s

Spain (1883). Biscay. Mining industry. Iron factory
" Spain (1883). Biscay. Mining industry. Iron factory of Marquiss of Mudela in the " Desert" (Bilbao). Front of the blast furnaces

Ironworks, Germany, 1901
GERMANY Puddling furnaces. Date: 1901

Blast Furnace

Gasworks furnace
The gasworks of Landskrona 1910. Date: 1910

Plaster & Lime Kilns
A plaster kiln (top) and a lime kiln (bottom) in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

In a London Gasworks
Workers in a London gasworks stoking the furnaces : a continual supply of fuel must be fed into them by hand - a laborious business. Date: 1907

Industrial furnaces
Workmen in front of two Meldrum Brothers patent furnaces, manufactured in Manchester. The furnaces may be " destructors", for the purpose of burning town refuse

Blast Furnace 1
Blast furnaces at Hanley, Staffordshire

Purifying Sulphur
Once the sulphure has been mined, it must be refined before it can be used commercially. Furnaces at Catolica perform this operation on the spot

Annealing at Royal Mint
The rotary annealing room, where blanks are softened in the red hot furnaces

Italian Fortune Card
GRAND JEU DE MLLE. DE LENORMAND The Alchemist. An Italian fortune-telling card

17th Century Furnaces
A high furnace of the 17th century

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