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A forging hammer that drops vertically onto the work piece. Usually relying on a powered cylinder to lift the hammer head and then adding to the force of the downward stroke. Originally steam powered ...

Domain: Metals; Category: Iron

High quality steel created by melting blister steel in a covered crucible using a coal fire. After the slag was removed, the resulting steel had consistent properties throughout. Process was ...

Domain: Metals; Category: Iron

A furnace (more of a kiln) in which wrought iron bars and charcoal were heated for up to two weeks, until the carbon had been absorbed into the surface of the iron. The resulting blister steel could ...

Domain: Metals; Category: Iron

Iron with a high carbon content (above 2%). Identical, in most cases, to pig iron, it is easily cast to almost any shape and melts at a lower temperature to other type of iron and steel. ...

Domain: Metals; Category: Iron

Most common and generally useful form of steel. Contains 0.3% of carbon.

Domain: Metals; Category: Iron

Very early type of furnace for reducing iron ore directly into wrought iron. Product was of poor quality as it was never molten. Slag was generally removed by hammering, but some was inevitably left ...

Domain: Metals; Category: Iron

First type of steel that was commercially produced. Process took place in a cementation furnace and produced a bar that had a high carbon content on the surface and a low carbon content in the ...

Domain: Metals; Category: Iron

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