State Man Holds Blast Furnace
Record
The following article clipped from
a recent daily may be of interest to
engineering and chemistry students:
All world's records for pig iron
production were broken by the four
blast fui naces of the Carnegie Steel
Company at Duquesne during
March. The four furnaces pro
duced 78.128 tons against the record
of 77,142 tons held by the Edgar
Thompson blast furnaces of the
same company. The record is re
markable in that it is again made by
the famous furnaces which startled
the world by their enormous pro
duction in 1896, being the first great
furnaces of their kind to be built.
It had been supposed that the limit
of furnaces of such size had been
reached.
The four furnaces were built to
have each a daily capacity for 500
tons of pig iron.. They are 100 feet
high and smashed records repeatedly
until October, 1904, when their
highest production for a month was
reached, it being 74,606 tons. The
Duquesne furnaces, which had been
champions since their erection, lost
the record to the Edgar Thompson
furnaces, in March, 1905, when four
furnaces of that group L' produced
77,142 tons.
Since then there has been the
sharpest rivalry among the blast
furnace. su?erintendents of the two
plants, one to regain the champion
ship and the other to hold it. The
new record exceeds the old record
of the Duquesne group by 3,522
tons and it exceeds the World's
record by 976 tons. It shows a
total daily average for the four
furnaces of '2,520 tons and an av
erage of 630 tons per day for each
furnace.
The largest daily production of
any one furnace for one day was 832
tons and the largest for the four
was 2,382 tons. This is considered
phenomenal for furnaces built to
THE STATE COLLEGIAN
2,000 tons a day. A. N. Diehl,
State, '9B, is superintendent of the
Duquesne record-break•ng group.
Governor Heggens of New York
has just signed a bill making it
possible for Syracuse University to
hold property of unlimited value.
The University charter in its original
form prohibited accumulation of
property in excess of $5,000,000.
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