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Charles Siemens Regenerative Furnaces,1858

Machines: a gas-fired glass-furnace, long and short sections, plan and details. The open hearth furnace was first developed by German-born engineer Carl Wilhelm Siemens. In 1865, the French engineer Pierre-Émile Martin took out a license from Siemens and first applied his regenerative furnace for making steel. Their process was known as the Siemens-Martin process, and the furnace as an open-hearth furnace. Most open hearth furnaces were closed by the early 1990s, not least because of their slow operation, being replaced by the basic oxygen furnace or electric arc furnace. Charles William Siemens (April 4, 1823 - November 19, 1883) was a German-born engineer who for most of his life worked in Britain and later became a British subject. The regenerative furnace is his greatest single invention using the Siemens-Martin process. The electric pyrometer, which is perhaps the most elegant and original of all his inventions, is also the link which connects his electrical with his metallurgical researches. Siemens pursued two major themes in his inventive efforts, one based upon the science of heat, the other based upon the science of electricity; and the electric thermometer was, as it were, a delicate cross-coupling which connected both. He died in 1883 at the age of 60. No artist credited, 1858.

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Charles Siemens Regenerative Furnaces,1858

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Machines: a gas-fired glass-furnace, long and short sections, plan and details. The open hearth furnace was first developed by German-born engineer Carl Wilhelm Siemens. In 1865, the French engineer Pierre-Émile Martin took out a license from Siemens and first applied his regenerative furnace for making steel. Their process was known as the Siemens-Martin process, and the furnace as an open-hearth furnace. Most open hearth furnaces were closed by the early 1990s, not least because of their slow operation, being replaced by the basic oxygen furnace or electric arc furnace. Charles William Siemens (April 4, 1823 - November 19, 1883) was a German-born engineer who for most of his life worked in Britain and later became a British subject. The regenerative furnace is his greatest single invention using the Siemens-Martin process. The electric pyrometer, which is perhaps the most elegant and original of all his inventions, is also the link which connects his electrical with his metallurgical researches. Siemens pursued two major themes in his inventive efforts, one based upon the science of heat, the other based upon the science of electricity; and the electric thermometer was, as it were, a delicate cross-coupling which connected both. He died in 1883 at the age of 60. No artist credited, 1858.

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36.8 x 27.2 cm | 14.5 x 10.7 in (300 dpi)

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CÉLÈBRE • CELEBRITE • CONSTRUCTION MECANIQUE