blast furnacen.
A furnace in which a blast of air is used; spec. the common furnace for iron-smelting, into which a blast of compressed and highly heated air is driven by a blowing-engine. Also attributive.
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lamp-furnace1651
wind-furnace1651
reverbatory1656
blast furnace1706
revolver1879
run-out1881
flame-furnace1888
producer1890
resistance furnace1897
induction furnace1907
suction plant1909
high-frequency induction furnace1918
solar furnace1924
roller hearth furnace1927
1706 London Gaz. No. 4241/2 A new Invention of Smelting..of Black Tin-Ore into White Tin..in a Blast Furnace.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. iv. 94 The wind-furnace may generally be replaced with advantage by the blast-furnace.
1860 W. Fordyce Hist. Coal 116 The blast furnace consists of two truncated cones, united at their bases.
1877 Practical Mag. VII. 248 (title) The utilization of blast furnace slag.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 601/2 (heading) Blast-furnace gases.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 19 July 8/2 The blast-furnacemen at Workington.
1930 Engineering 17 Jan. 68/1 Mortar, with the exception of blast-furnace cement, ceased to change in strength.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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