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2 unusual facts about blast furnace


Hasliberg

Blast furnaces were built in the Mühletal, and many residents cut timber or produced charcoal for the furnaces.

Jujuy Province

Jujuy is the second largest Argentine producer of iron, used by the Altos Hornos Zapla steel mill.


Alija Sirotanović

Despite the obvious similarities, the 10-dinar banknote and its 1000-old-dinar predecessor with the same design are older (1955) and showed Arif Heralić, a metal worker working on a blast furnace in Zenica.

Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley

Ultimately he fell out with Dud and expelled Dud from the new coke-fired furnace that he had built at Hasco Bridge on the boundary between Gornal and Himley.

Fire and Steel Festival

Teesside Steelworks, which stretches from Redcar, where the largest blast furnace in Europe is located, to east Middlesbrough area are Europe’s largest steelworks producing steel for the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Tyne Bridge, Auckland Harbour Bridge and many more.

Isaac Wilkinson

Some time between 1721 and 1723, Wilkinson moved to Workington where he worked at the Little Clifton furnace which probably produced cast iron by smelting with coke.

John T. Wilder

In 1867, he founded an ironworks in the Chattanooga region, then built and operated the first two blast furnaces in the South at Rockwood, Tennessee.

Långban

Långbanshyttan is the name of an adjacent blast furnace and adjacent house of the factory manager, where the brothers Nils and John Ericsson were born.

Rawmarsh

This complex of two large blast furnaces and Siemens open hearth furnaces and ancillaries was closed in the late 1970s the land remaining derelict until it was redeveloped as several large retail complexes from the late 1980s.

Roots-type supercharger

It is named for the American inventors and brothers Philander and Francis Marion Roots, founders of the Roots Blower Company, Connersville, Indiana, who first patented the basic design in 1860 as an air pump for use in blast furnaces and other industrial applications.


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Ceramic Hello

Additionally "Theatre Matrix", and demos for a track from a Wickens/Jah Wobble collaboration 12" ("Between Two Frequencies") and a song from the collaboration The Partnership ("Sampling The Blast Furnace") were included. The version of "Sampling The Blast Furnace" that is included on The Absence Of A Canary V1.1 is a demo recorded in a studio run by William Orbit in London.

Charles Shaar Murray

He has also sung and played guitar and harmonica as "Blast Furnace" with the band Blast Furnace and the Heatwaves and currently performs with London blues band Crosstown Lightnin'.

Frank Ash Yeo

He moved to Swansea where he was a colliery owner and director of the Swansea Bank and the Swansea Blast Furnace Company.

Hiram Capron

Some time later, about 1821, Capron began investigating establishing his own blast furnace and, with a few business associates, he purchased a plot of land in Norfolk County by Lake Erie and erected a new blast furnace in 1822.

Laskill

The destruction of the Abbey at Rievaulx by King Henry VIII during the Reformation put an end to this blast furnace and its advanced technology.

Maria Furnace, Pennsylvania

Maria Furnace is a South Mountain populated place on Toms Creek west of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, that was the location of an 1822 blast furnace until operations were moved to Caledonia.

Port Kembla, New South Wales

Pacific National operates daily coal trains to the Inner Harbour section of the port, and into the blast furnace section of the steelworks.

Spring Vale

The sculpture was unveiled on 19 October 1994 by Labour MP Dennis Turner, who had worked as a steelman at the Elizabeth blast furnace.

The works were a major employer for the area and the location where the first Bessemer blast furnace was installed, which allowed the invention of Tarmac using burnt coal residue.