Contains

• kiln

  A furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks.

• crematory

  A furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes.

• electric furnace

  Any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current.

• cupola

  A vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting.

• register

  A regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other...

• blast furnace

  A furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by...

• grating

  A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.

• oil burner

  A furnace that burns oil.

• open-hearth furnace

  A furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth...

• incinerator

  A furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse).

• reverberatory furnace

  A furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly...

• firebox

  A furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned.

• gas furnace

  A furnace that burns gas.

• forge

  Furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping.

• athanor

  A furnace that feeds itself so as to maintain a uniform temperature; used by alchemists.

• tank furnace

  Furnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from...