The furnace shell rests on rockers to allow it to be tilted for tapping. A door at A allows access to the interior. The interior is lined with refractory brick H, and K denotes the bottom lining. E is an electrode (only one shown), raised and lowered by the rack and pinion drive R and S. Ī schematic cross section through a Heroult arc furnace. This furnace is now on display at Station Square, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. in Syracuse, New York, installing the first electric arc furnace in the U.S. The Sanderson brothers formed The Sanderson Brothers Steel Co. įurther electric arc furnaces were developed by Paul Héroult, of France, with a commercial plant established in the United States in 1907. This was specifically for the creation of phosphorus. The first successful and operational furnace was invented by James Burgess Readman in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1888 and patented in 1889.
Sir Humphry Davy conducted an experimental demonstration in 1810 welding was investigated by Pepys in 1815 Pinchon attempted to create an electrothermic furnace in 1853 and, in 1878–79, Sir William Siemens took out patents for electric furnaces of the arc type.
In the 19th century, a number of people had employed an electric arc to melt iron. Stassano furnace exhibited at the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia 'Leonardo da Vinci', Milan
