{"id":55168,"date":"2009-10-16T23:08:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=55168"},"modified":"2017-02-13T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T17:00:57","slug":"no-5-blast-furnace-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=55168","title":{"rendered":"No. 5 Blast Furnace Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55167\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_117-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_117-1.jpg 695w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_117-1-209x300.jpg 209w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_117-1-104x150.jpg 104w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/scn_117-1-400x576.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Archive believed this was the building of No. 5 blast furnace and since confirmed by Eric Johnson; it looks strange without it\u2019s clothes on!\u00a0 Arthur Ormrod tells us: \u201dThe tall cylinders then would be the \u201dCowper stoves, in which cleaned blast furnace gas is burned and used to heat the incoming cold blast, which then leaves as hot blast. These regenerative heat exchangers were invented by Edward Cowper in 1857 and are still used in blast furnace plants today.\u201d\u00a0Half-way along this bank of units was a long pipe\u00a0 ending in a thin rubber pipe and daily\u00a0a sampling of the blast-furnace gas to test it for calorific value (among other things) was undertaken.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many thanks to Eric Johnson and Arthur Ormerod for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The Archive believed this was the building of No. 5 blast furnace and since confirmed by Eric Johnson; it looks strange without it\u2019s clothes on! Arthur Ormrod tells us: \u201dThe tall cylinders then would be the \u201dCowper stoves, in which cleaned blast furnace gas is burned and used to heat the incoming cold blast, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ironsteel-works","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55169,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55168\/revisions\/55169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}