Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. Back into production go these carloads of scrap metal. The melting of alloy steels for defense work requires that steel mill scrapyards such as this be constantly filled. The overhead magnet deposits the scrap in a loader which carries it to the open hearth furnace. About fifty percent of scrap steel is used in open hearth production
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Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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Date
01/01/1940
Contributors
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Brackenridge, 40.60812, -79.74116
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain