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Ingot Hoisted from Car-Bottom Furnace

September 1948

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Ingot Hoisted from Car-Bottom Furnace
  • Title
  • Ingot Hoisted from Car-Bottom Furnace
  • Creator
  • Gaughan, William J.
  • Date
  • September 1948
  • Identifier
  • 943.94873.GN
  • Description
  • A Large Ingot being Hoisted from a Car-Bottom Reheating Furnace in the Process of Forging an Anvil. The Ingot Would Be Heated and then Forged by a Large Hydraulic Press until Its Desired Shape Was Attained. In this Process, the Forging Had to Be Reheated Several Times.
  • Extent
  • 4 x 5 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Blast furnaces
    Steel industry and trade
    Iron and steel workers
    Forging
    Anvils
    Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Rankin Works
    Carrie Furnace (Rankin, Pa.)
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Rankin (Pa.)
  • Source
  • William J. Gaughan Collection
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • William J. Gaughan Collection
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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