Sujet
Pouring the Steel Ingots
Légende
This early 1900s photo shows an Inland Steel company workers at the process of pouring the ingots. 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. When this open hearth asteel is done to a turn, it is drawn off into a huge ladle suspended from the overhead traveling crane. The ladle then moves along the row of ingot molds that you see in this picture. A small trap at the bottom of the ladle is opened and one after another of these ingot molds is filled with the molten steel. The molds stand on waiting cars and when filled they are pulled into the yard where, after they have sufficiently cooled, they are run under the 'stripper.'.
Crédit
Photo12/Universal Images Group
Notre référence
UMG24A34_302
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
53,1Mo (2,8Mo) / 47,8cm x 27,9cm / 5640 x 3291 (300dpi)