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Tapping the Blast Furnace
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This early 1900s image shows workers for Inland Steel Company tapping the blast furnace. The company's business was reducing iron ore to steel. Its only steel mill was located in East Chicago, Indiana, on the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal and a large landfill protruding out into Lake Michigan. Here we see the lower part of the great blast furnace. The white hot liquid iron sinks to the bottom and, freed from the slag, it is tapped and flows out, as you see in the picture, and is carried into huge brick-lined ladles. Each ladle holds 2t5 tons. Each ladle sits on its own little car and the whole train is filled at one heat. This train is run either to the open hearth furnace or to the pig-casting machines.
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Photo12/Universal Images Group/Ivy Close Images
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UMG24A34_299
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Droits gérés
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42,5Mo (2,0Mo) / 27,0cm x 39,4cm / 3193 x 4650 (300dpi)