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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. The huge carbon electrodes of the thirty-five ton electric melting furnaces used in converting scrap iron and steel into high quality alloy steels. A worker is adjusting the rings that guide the electrodes into the arc furnace. This is just one of the new furnaces under construction at this plant to meet the expanding need for alloy steels under the emergency created by the national defenseproduction program
Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. The rapid tempo of expansion necessary to meet the ever-mounting needs of the national defense production program. In the left foreground a newly completed electric melting furnace is already in operation as a construction crew puts the finishing touches on the furnaces beyond it. In the background additional plant structure is still being built. Electric melting furnaces provide faster melting of the steel bath and more precise control of temperature which is necessary in the processing of high quality alloy steels
Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. The huge carbon electrodes of the thirty-five ton electric melting furnaces used in converting scrap iron and steel into high quality alloy steels. A worker is adjusting the rings that guide the electrodes into the arc furnace. This is just one of the new furnaces under construction at this plant to meet the expanding need for alloy steels under the emergency created by the national defenseproduction program
Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. The rapid tempo of expansion necessary to meet the ever-mounting needs of the national defense production program. In the left foreground a newly completed electric melting furnace is already in operation as a construction crew puts the finishing touches on the furnaces beyond it. In the background additional plant structure is still being built. Electric melting furnaces provide faster melting of the steel bath and more precise control of temperature which is necessary in the processing of high quality alloy steels
Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Thirty-five ton electric arc melting furnace in operation. These furnaces convert scrap iron and steel into high quality steel alloys. This type of furnace gives much faster heating and permits the accurate temperature control so necessary in the processing of the high quality steels. The alloying elements are being added to the bath of molten steel
Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. General view of part of the plant where scrap iron and steel are converted into many grades of steel alloys. In the foreground are carloads of finished products, while in the middle foreground can be seen piles and cars of scrap coming in to feed the huge furnaces. In the background is the power house which supplies electricity and steam to turn the wheels of this important defense industry, set in the Pennsylvania hills about thirty miles north of Pittsburgh, one of America's most important steel producing centers
Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Thirty-five ton electric arc melting furnace in operation. These furnaces convert scrap iron and steel into high quality steel alloys. This type of furnace gives much faster heating and permits the accurate temperature control so necessary in the processing of the high quality steels. The alloying elements are being added to the bath of molten steel
Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Power for the wheels of defense industry. The stacks of the power house which generates all the steam required in this plant. The heavy wires in the foreground carry current to the electric furnaces used to convert scrap iron and steel into the many alloys required for national defense production
Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Power for the wheels of defense industry. The stacks of the power house which generates all the steam required in this plant. The heavy wires in the foreground carry current to the electric furnaces used to convert scrap iron and steel into the many alloys required for national defense production
Steel alloy manufacture. America builds for its Arsenals of Democracy. Workers ramming in the bottom of a new thirty-five ton electric melting furnace which two days later was placed in operation to produce steel alloys from scrap iron and steel. This plant is being expanded at record speed to keep up with the even increasing needs of the national defense production program. Allegheny Ludlum, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania
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Date
01/01/1940
Contributors
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Brackenridge
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40.60812, -79.74116
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