Bronze or brass foundries use crucible furnaces or induction furnaces.
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Most aluminium foundries use either electric resistance or gas heated crucible furnaces or reverberatory furnaces.
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This was one of the first in the city, giving the same capacity as sixty traditional crucible furnaces.
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The steel was produced in specialised workshops called'crucible furnaces', which consisted of a workshop at ground level and a subterranean cellar.
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The quarter played an important part in Sheffield's industrial heritage and examples include the crucible furnace and buildings at 35 Well Meadow Street.
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Some of the changes at the Iittala glassworks included the conversion of a single special crucible furnace and the old 4 crucible furnace into 6 crucibles.
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Some of the changes at the Iittala glassworks included the conversion of a single special crucible furnace and the old 4 crucible furnace into 6 crucibles.
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In 1873 and 1874, a further range of crucible furnaces was added, powered by a Siemens gas furnace, with its own gas plant adjoining.
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It was named Norfolk Works and had crucible furnaces, a file making shop and what was, at the time, the largest rolling mill in Sheffield.
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Alongside this, a crucible furnace for bronze casting was found dating to 2300-1900 BC at the temple precinct at Kerma, however the source of the tin is unknown.