I've been twenty years at the furnaces and been workin' a twelve-hour day all that time, seven days in the week.
The smoke from the many furnaces and from the two railroads which cross the town settles heavily, making the section gloomy even on the brightest days.
Great fans of light and shadow wig-wag above furnaces and converters.
Krupp was to mobilize and hold within reach of his furnaces and rolls a large and efficient working population.
I found them in the machine shops working sixty hours a week; at the blast furnaces working twelve hours a day for seven days in the week.
For eight years the fires in the furnaces have been extinguished; the incompleted iron work that lies about the ground has been given over to the ravages of rust; desolation is the master of the mill.
After settling the estate of Gorman Purdy, and turning over to the workingmen the mines, furnaces and breakers that were owned by the late Coal King, Harvey and his wife go to live in a comfortable villa in the suburbs.
From across the river the accustomed flare of the furnacesis missing.
More than twice this figure is attained upon the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie road in hauling ore from the lakes to the furnaces at Pittsburg.
We could not keep iron furnaces running in New England; they are all gone.
Her furnaces were built of mud or clay; they were only intended to make smoke, not steam.
Then a good coat of black paint or pitch; her furnaces were filled with pitch and other inflammable materials, and she was ready.
A few months hence furnaces will rage in its stomach, and cause it to force tons of steam into the mighty cylinders driving some majestic vessel across the Atlantic.
Therefore the necessary draught is created by forcing air through the furnaces instead of by drawing it.
Koerting Gas Engines built by the De la Vergne Company of New York City for blowing the blastfurnaces of the Lackawanna Steel Company.
These immense machines, some with fly-wheels 30 feet in diameter, and cylinders spacious enough for a man to stand erect in, work blowers for furnaces or drive dynamos.
Nothing solid or even liquid can exist in such furnaces as they are.
He was spending more time at his books, having earned a nice little sum during the winter taking care of furnaces and shoveling paths.
Neale O'Neil had several furnaces to attend to now, and he always looked after the removal of the ashes to the curbline, and did other dirty work, immediately after school.
The Spaniards themselves did not establish furnaces in this country when they first inhabited it to fuse iron.
Here and there mills that had gone down fired their furnaces again and went back to work, many with depleted shifts, however.
He was building the new furnaces up the river by that time.
He went to England to see the furnaces there, and brought home a wife, a timid, tall Englishwoman of irreproachable birth, who remained always an alien in the crude, busy new city.
Dingy curtains hung at their windows, dingy because of the smoke from the great furnaces and railroads.
The furnaces had covered the fields with a thin deposit of reddish ore dust.
When Swansea was the centre of the copper-smelting industry in Europe, many varieties of ores from different mines were smelted in the same furnaces, and the Welsh reverberatory furnaces were used.
In Mansfeld brick cupola furnaces are without a rival in size, equipment and performance.
Muffle furnaces are suitable for fine ores which are liable to decrepitate or sinter.
In this system two furnaces are connected at the top by a gantry or bridge, against which, between the furnaces, two inclined elevators are set, so that each can serve either furnace.
Furnaces of this size smelt 200 tons of charge a day.
Blast furnaces of large size, built of brick, have been constructed for treating the richest and more silicious ores of Rio Tinto, and the Rio Tinto Company has introduced converters at the mine.
Blake's and Brunton's furnaces are reverberatory furnaces with a movable bed.
A similar operation is conducted when arsenic is present; basic-lined reverberatory furnaces have been used for the same purpose.
The furnaces used were of ordinary design and built of brick.
Another advantage claimed for this system is that the rails of the cradle, when in its lowest position, correspond with the rails which lie parallel to the furnaces and run right under the store bins from which the skip is loaded.
The process is effected either in heaps, stalls, shaft furnaces, reverberatory furnaces or muffle furnaces.
Every day hundreds of people, men and women, perish in this way; and they are borne off to the great furnaces for the dead, and consumed.
And still the bombs drop and crash, and drop and crash; and the barricades are furnaces of living fire.
Neither Pyragmon nor Steropes e’er builded a work with toil so great as that, nor ever did bellows breathe forth such blasts nor the molten mass of metal flow in a stream so deep that the very furnaces were weary of heating it.
What anvil should not ring, what forge be idle, from what vast furnaces should bronze not flow that is to shape thine image?
These furnaces can be bought in almost any general supply store.
The furnace bridges of marine boilers are walls or partitions built up at the ends of the furnaces to narrow the opening for the escape of heat into the flues.
What method of firing ordinary furnaces is the best?
Can any constructive precautions be taken to prevent the furnaces and tube plates of the boiler from being burned by the intensity of the heat?
When the combustion is slow, the heat in the furnaces and flues is less intense, and a larger amount of heating surface consequently becomes necessary to absorb the heat.
During the winter the weather was severe, the houses were not so comfortable as now, storm windows and furnaces were unthought of, and stoves were considered luxuries.
Its coke is about three hundred miles nearer to the Sheffield and Decatur furnacesthan the Pocahontas coke which is now being shipped to them.
It is a great quadrangular pile of brick, three stories high, heated by furnaces and lighted by gas--modern appliances which heighten the contrast with the ancient life whose needs they subserve.
United States, and that furnaces will have an advantage in freight in reaching the markets of the Ohio Valley and the farther South.
Three sizes of Stetefeldt’s furnaces are constructed: The largest will roast from 40 to 80 tons per diem.
There are other furnaces which work with outside heat, but I have not seen them in action.
Usually the mechanical stirring furnaces give trouble and should be avoided, but the horse-shoe type possesses qualifications worthy of consideration.
In spite of your furnacesand books, your witches and your learning, you could not divine my visit.
Our furnaces shed gleams of light which help society to possess more perfect forms of industry.
If I, at this day, could recognize the presence of God in matter, the fire of the furnaces that have been burning for centuries would be extinguished to-morrow at my bidding.
The giants who toiled in leather masks and leather suits before the furnacessuited his taste better.
Farquharson had struck hands with him over it, and the Blair iron ore went to the Crawford furnaces to be smelted into pig iron.
Great furnaces began to loom up in Crawford's mental vision, and to cast splendid lustres across his future fortunes.
The coal pit had been opened, and great ironfurnaces built almost at its mouth.
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