(from the article `iron processing`) ...two types of furnace came into use. Bowl furnaces were constructed by digging a small hole in the ground and arranging for air from a bellows to ... The earliest kind of firing equipment was the shaft furnace. This was followed by the grate-kiln and the traveling grate, which together account for ...
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See furnace.
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A melting furnace classically used (i) for continuous melting of copper cathode as
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