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YHCIL MSS0140 Youngstown Sheet & Tube Audiovisual Archives
Description: This picture depicts the filling of a Bessemer converter with pig iron. It was taken at Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Indiana Harbor works. 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. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F10_005
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Indiana Harbor works; Bessemer furnace; Steel industry
Places: East Chicago (Indiana)