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Old Beehive Coke Ovens

1908-08-24

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Old Beehive Coke Ovens
  • Title
  • Old Beehive Coke Ovens
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B007.F04.I04
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B007.F04.I04
  • Description
  • In July 1859 Laughlin & Company, later to become Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, acquired land on the north side of the Monongahela River opposite Brownstown (currently the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh). In addition to two blast furnaces, called Eliza furnaces, some beehive coke ovens were built on this site, coke being necessary for the production of steel. Coke ovens evolved from these beehive ovens to coke oven batteries where 50 or more individual ovens were placed side by side. Each oven was heated to a temperature over 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. When the coal is baked inside the ovens, moisture and volatile chemicals are driven off, leaving a porous material that is almost pure carbon.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Coke ovens--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Coke industry--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.Pittsburgh Works.
    Soho (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Photographs
  • Rights Information
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