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YHCIL MSS0140 Youngstown Sheet & Tube Audiovisual Archives
Description: This photograph depicts the pouring of pig iron into the Bessemer converter in the middle of the image. At the bottom of the photograph, three workers are pouring steel into teeming ingot molds. 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_B01F10_002
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Ingot molds; Bessemer furnaces; Steel industry
Places: YHCIL MSS0140 Youngstown Sheet & Tube Audiovisual Archives