Coke plant dryer photograph   Save
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Description: This photograph depicts a coke plant dryer. It is a tall, cylindrical device with conical ends. Coke plants burn coal to remove its impurities and form it into coke, which is then used as a fuel in blast furnaces to make pig iron. This is the first step of the steelmaking process. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F69_015
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Coke plants
Places: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Audiovisual Archives