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YHCIL MSS0140 Youngstown Sheet & Tube Audiovisual Archives
Description: This photograph depicts a flame blowing through a Bessemer converter located in Indiana Harbor, Indiana. Bessemer converters release oxygen gas through molten iron, which reacts with carbon and and other impurities to increase the quality of the steel, as well as producing a large flame. This photograph belongs to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Audiovisual Archives, so its subject is likely located at a Youngstown plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F09_009
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Indiana Harbor; Bessemer furnace; Steel industry
Places: East Chicago (Indiana); Lake County (Indiana)