Puddling furnace and mechanical hammer (right
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, circa 1895
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13904565
Media ID
48391247
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3275px x 4500px
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Credit
World History Archive / Mary Evans Picture Library
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World History Archive





























