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Puddling furnace

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a reverberatory furnace in which cast iron is converted into wrought iron or into steel by puddling.

See also: Puddling



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Chairman of the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum at Skinningrove, Peter Tuffs, says there would have been thousands of puddling furnaces, each with a crew of six to 15 workers, in the 19th Century ironworks, all within a five-mile radius of South Bank.
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Where blast furnaces are used to reduce iron ore into pig iron, various kinds of steelmaking furnaces are made for a multitude of other purposes: Puddling furnace, reverberatory furnace, Bessemer converter, open hearth furnace, basic oxygen furnace, electric arc furnace, electric induction furnace.
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A puddling furnace was invented in 1784 and it is credited at the time with being the most successful way of creating wrought iron without the use of charcoal.
The Brief History of Wrought Iron by Ken Finnigan / Ethnic, cultural, racial issues community
 
 
 
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