Title
Steel Making
Caption
Puddling furnace and mechanical hammer (right background): Pig iron puddled to remove carbon and oxygen, ball of hot metal (bloom) then hammered. Process sometimes repeated. Purest form of iron with great strength produced. Krupps Works, Essen, Germany. Wood engraving Leipzig c1895
Date
1895
Credit line
Photo12/Ann Ronan Picture Library
Reference
ARP07096_390001738
License type
Rights managed
Available size
26,1Mb (3,8Mb) / 8,6in x 11,8in / 2579 x 3543 (300dpi)