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Puddlers removing a ball from an Iron Puddling Furnace
1870/1954
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Title
Puddlers removing a ball from an Iron Puddling Furnace
Identifier
MSP33.B008.F03.I03
Source Identifier
MSP33.B008.F03.I03
Description
Puddling furnaces were rectangular boxes with a hearth shaped like roasting pan, made of firebrick or stone and lined with iron and slag cinder. At one end was a firebox; at the other was an opening to a tall stack for escaping gases. The end result of boiling iron in a hot furnace was a ball of iron (pictured here) and various impurities, from which the squeezers would remove most of the slag to form a square or flat bar called muck iron. This was then sent to the rollers and others who worked the wrought iron into various shapes by rolling or further hammering, depending on the product desired. Early products were listed in 1858 as iron shapes, nails, and cut and pressed spikes.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.Pittsburgh Works.
Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Puddling-furnaces--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Steel workers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
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
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