Blast Furnace

September 1994

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Blast Furnace
  • Title
  • Blast Furnace
  • Creator
  • Kobus, Ken
  • Date
  • September 1994
  • Identifier
  • 200618.28.6.36
  • Description
  • Blast furnace at LTV Steel in Cleveland, Ohio. This Furnace had been drilled open and tapped, which is part of the casting process. The blast furnace reduces iron ore to iron, which collects at the bottom of the furnace. The extreme heat of the furnace acts as the reducing agent. An eight hour process usually turns 1700 tons of iron.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
    slides (photographs)
  • Subject
  • Steel-works
    Blast furnaces
    LTV Steel Company, Inc. Cleveland Works
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Cleveland (Ohio)
  • Source
  • Ken Kobus Photograph Collection, 1980-1990
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Ken Kobus Collection
  • Rights Information
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