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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: April 20, 2016
Caption: No. 2 Shop
Additional Description: On the site of this Riverfront Park once stood Jones & Laughlin's massive No. 2 Open Hearth Shop. Though once the industry standard, the Open Hearth Furnace is now mostly obsolete in modern steelmaking. It was used to refine steel by burning off excess carbon and other impurities from pig iron, scrap steel, and limestone to produce steel.

At the start of the 20th century, No. 2 Shop contained nine Open Hearth furnaces. By the 1970s, the outmoded Open Hearth was replaced by Electric Furnaces, which produced steel until the plant's closure in 1984.
Submitted: April 22, 2016, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p350335
File Size: 4.720 Megabytes

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