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Photographer: Steve Stoessel
Taken: March 28, 2020
Caption: Right Inset
Additional Description: IRON TO STEEL
Experiments in producing steel on site, under the direction of metallurgist Joseph Dixon, used a puddling furnace to re-melt iron from the furnaces and burn off carbon. The molten iron was then hammered into steel plates.

PUDDLING FURNACE
Partially processed iron was melted and stirred with a bar, causing the slag to separate. Heating was indirect, preventing contaminants from the fuel from being mixed with the iron.
Submitted: April 14, 2020, by Steve Stoessel of Niskayuna, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p517094
File Size: 0.271 Megabytes

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