Blast furnace. This is Low Moor Furnaces, Low Moor, Virginia, USA. It was rebuilt in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In the foreground are beehive cok

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Blast furnace. This is Low Moor Furnaces, Low Moor, Virginia, USA. It was rebuilt in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In the foreground are beehive coke ovens. Dating from the early 1900s, this photograph is from the Albert T. Keller collection of the American Iron and Steel Institute. The collection consists of historical photographs of blast furnaces used in the iron and steel industry. A blast furnace is where iron ore is heated to high temperatures in the presence of oxygen, with the carbon content controlled to produce types of steel (an alloy of iron and carbon).

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Photo credit: © HAGLEY MUSEUM AND ARCHIVE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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