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Southern Ductile Casting Company, Melting, 2217 Carolina Avenue, Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL
Location2217 Carolina Avenue,
Bessemer, AL
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER AL-125-A
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. SCRAP STELL AND FOUNDRY SCRAP IRON, USED AS THE PRIMARY METAL SOURCES, ARE STORED IN THESE BINS AND LIFTED TO SCALES BY AN ELECTRIC MAGNET.
2. WORKER REMOVING COVER OF FURNACE IN PREPARATION FOR CHARGING.
3. WORKER CHARGING FURNACE.
4. WORKER CHARGING FURNACE.
5. FURNACE CHARGING.
6. FURNACE CHARGING.
7. WORKER REPLACING COVER ON FURNACE.
8. IRON MELTING.
9. WORKER REMOVING SLAG FROM THE MOLTEN METAL BATH IN THE ELECTRIC FURNACE AFTER ADDING A CHEMICAL COAGULANT TO FORCE IT TO THE SURFACE.
10. ELECTRIC FURNACES TILT AROUND A PIVOT UNDER THE SPOUT TO FILL BULL LADLES BELOW THE CHARGING DECK. THE REAR VIEW OF A POURING ELECTRIC FURNACE FROM THE CHARGING DECK IS SHOWN HERE.
11. ELECTRIC FURNACES TILT AROUND A PIVOT UNDER THE SPOUT TO FILL BULL LADLES BELOW THE CHARGING DECK. THE REAR VIEW OF A POURING ELECTRIC FURNACE FROM THE CHARGING DECK IS SHOWN HERE.
12. ELECTRIC FURNACES TILT AROUND A PIVOT UNDER THE SPOUT TO FILL BULL LADLES BELOW THE CHARGING DECK. THE REAR VIEW OF A POURING ELECTRIC FURNACE FROM THE CHARGING DECK IS SHOWN HERE.
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