Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Powerful tongs strip the mold from an ingot at Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s Lackawanna, N. Y. plant. Stripped ingots travel immediately to soaking pit furnaces, where each is uniformly heated to a temperature of about 2,200 degrees F. in preparation for rolling and shaping.
Powerful tongs strip the mold from an ingot at Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s Lackawanna, N. Y. plant. Stripped ingots travel immediately to soaking pit furnaces, where each is uniformly heated to a temperature of about 2,200 degrees F. in preparation for rolling and shaping.
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Powerful tongs strip the mold from an ingot at Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s Lackawanna, N. Y. plant. Stripped ingots travel immediately to soaking pit furnaces, where each is uniformly heated to a temperature of about 2,200 degrees F. in preparation for rolling and shaping.

Bethlehem Steel Corporation · [ca. 1964–1972]

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