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Dowlais-Cardiff (East Moors) steelworks, negative
Interior view showing the melting shop, c.1896. Nos. 1 to 3 (of six) open hearth furnaces seen from casting pit, and viewed from the north east. On the left stand a pair of rail-mounted ladles into which the steel from the furnaces was tapped. These were drawn along the rails by the steam crane on the right whilst the liquid steel they contained flowed into ingot moulds set in the pit between the rails. Beneath the covers in the left foreground are heated ‘soaking pits’ in which the solidified ingots were reheated after removal from the moulds.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2012.13/34
Creation/Production
unknown
Date: 1896 (circa)
Acquisition
Collected officially, 28/2/2012
Measurements
Length
(mm): 254
Width
(mm): 304
Techniques
gelatin dry plate glass negative
glass negative
negative
Material
glass
Location
In store
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