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open-hearth furnace

noun

  1. (esp formerly) a steel-making reverbatory furnace in which pig iron and scrap are contained in a shallow hearth and heated by producer gas
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Dr. Locke was born in Detroit on April 30, 1934, his mom a housewife, his dad working an open-hearth furnace at the Ford Motor Company.

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In the summer of 1919, a few weeks before the Great Steel Strike, I bought some second-hand clothes and went to work on an open-hearth furnace near Pittsburgh to learn the steel business.

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In the open-hearth furnace the metal is protected from the flaming gases by a slag covering.

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At the distant end of the plaza, over the heads of the crowd, I could see the piles and tracks of an overhead crane, towering above what looked like an open-hearth furnace.

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The Wilson gas producer, working in conjunction with the open-hearth furnace, had recently produced some extremely wonderful results.

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