Reconstruction showing Working Principles and Section as existing, looking East Insc. "GDH"
SC 358456
Description Reconstruction showing Working Principles and Section as existing, looking East Insc. "GDH"
Catalogue Number SC 358456
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 10647
Scope and Content Reconstruction of blast furnace at Bonawe Ironworks, Bonawe, Strathclyde Bonawe Ironworks on the shore of Loch Etive was founded in 1752-3 by Richard Ford and Company as an offshoot of their works at Furness in England. It exploited local wood for smelting iron ore brought via the loch from Lancashire and Cumberland. Each cam tooth catches the handle of the bellows, forces it down and then releases it. Then the weighted beam (11) pulls the handle up in time for the next tooth. The bellows work alternately to keep up a continuous 'blast' of air into the furnace. A charcoal-fuelled blast furnace is fed with limestone, charcoal and ore. Continuous blasts of air fuel the burning charcoal. The temperature reaches about 1200 (C. Impurities combined with limestone, or 'slag', floats to the top of the molten iron. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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