Blast furnace skip hoist and raw materials   Save
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Audiovisual Archives
Description: This incline in this photograph is a blast furnace skip hoist, a system of buckets mounted to transport materials up an incline. A blast furnace skip hoist transported coke, pig iron, and crushed limestone to the top of the furnace. Raw material piles on the ground are also visible. Blast furnaces burn alternating layers of iron ore and coke (as fuel) by forcing in large amounts of air, forming pig iron. This is the first step of the steelmaking process. This photograph belongs to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Audiovisual Archives, so it likely depicts a Youngstown company plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F28_010
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies
Places: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Audiovisual Archives