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    Oxford Furnace is a historic blast furnace on Washington Avenue, near the intersection with Belvidere Avenue, in Oxford, Oxford Township, Warren County...
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    affirms that the township's creation was in 1755. Oxford Furnace, constructed in 1741, was the third furnace in Colonial New Jersey and the first constructed...
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    A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or...
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    individually listed Oxford Furnace and Shippen Manor, three contributing structures, and six contributing sites. Oxford Furnace was started in 1741 by...
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    Daniel. In the narrative, the three Jewish men are thrown into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylon for refusing to bow to the king's...
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    Fireback embossed with royal coat-of-arms of Great Britain, cast at Oxford Furnace, New Jersey during the reign of George II...
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    brothers Selden T. and George W. Scranton, who had worked at Oxford Furnace in Oxford, New Jersey, founded what became Lackawanna Iron & Coal, later...
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    A tube furnace is an electric heating device used to conduct syntheses and purifications of inorganic compounds and occasionally in organic synthesis...
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    fired reverberatory furnace. It was developed in England during the 1780s. The molten pig iron was stirred in a reverberatory furnace, in an oxidizing environment...
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    Furnace Green is one of 14 neighbourhoods in Crawley in West Sussex, England, and a local government ward. Furnace Green is located to the east of the...
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    Washington Iron Furnace is an historic iron furnace, located in Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia. The granite furnace was built around 1770, and...
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    Jersey, in 1828 and became a teamster. He and his brother both worked at Oxford Furnace, an iron manufacturing factory. Learning of extensive iron and coal...
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    Road Netcong–Stanhope Waterloo Hackettstown Port Murray Washington Oxford Furnace Bridgeville Manunka Chunk Delaware Phillipsburg Branch New Village Stewartsville...
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    Edition (Elsevier Science Limited: Kidlington, Oxford, England, 2002). Robert Raymond, Out of the Fiery Furnace, The MacMillan Company of Australia Pty Ltd...
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    during his tenure. George M. Robeson was born on March 16, 1829, in Oxford Furnace, New Jersey, near Belvidere in Warren County. Robeson's family was of...
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    ton to just 0.003. By 2000 the basic oxygen furnace accounted for 60% of global steel output. Modern furnaces will take a charge of iron of up to 400 tons...
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  • dioxide (CO2). A calciner is a steel cylinder that rotates inside a heated furnace and performs indirect high-temperature processing (550–1150 °C, or 1000–2100 °F)...
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    Shippen Manor (category Oxford Township, New Jersey)
    Shippen Jr.. The brothers owned the nearby Oxford Furnace and would manage the furnace from this home. The old furnace produced iron from 1741 to 1882. According...
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    including 2.1% of those under age 18 and 8.1% of those age 65 or over. Oxford Furnace Shippen Manor Gazetteer of New Jersey Places, United States Census Bureau...
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    mainly confined to shore batteries and forts, due to the need for a special furnace to heat the shot, and their use from a ship was in fact against Royal Navy...
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  • February 10, 2017. "Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory - Clemence-Irons House - Rhode Island". Dendrochronology.com. Retrieved May 25, 2021. "Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory...
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  • use of the hot-blast technique in the U.S. was carried out in 1835 at Oxford Furnace in Warren County, New Jersey, by William Henry, Seldon Scranton's father-in-law...
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    bridges, two tunnels, and much excavation before it opened in 1856. In 1862, Oxford Tunnel (also known as Van Nest Gap Tunnel) opened, relieving trains of a...
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    Bloomery (category Industrial furnaces)
    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bloomery is a type of metallurgical furnace once used widely for smelting iron from its oxides. The bloomery was the...
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    then single tracked from Washington to Delaware. Storm damage in 1968 near Oxford, New Jersey, led to the railroad's demise. All remaining trackage was removed...
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    only produced from the blast furnaces, but also by remelting pig iron in air furnaces, a variant of the reverberatory furnace. The Company also became early...
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    station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station Oxford Furnace toward Portland Old Main Line Port Murray toward Lake Hopatcong Stewartsville...
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    Foundry (section Furnace)
    it. Modern furnace types include electric arc furnaces (EAF), induction furnaces, cupolas, reverberatory, and crucible furnaces. Furnace choice is dependent...
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    George's death in 1861. Selden Scranton had already returned in 1858 to Oxford Furnace in New Jersey. William Scranton started working in the family business...
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    Road Netcong–Stanhope Waterloo Hackettstown Port Murray Washington Oxford Furnace Bridgeville Manunka Chunk Delaware Phillipsburg Branch New Village Stewartsville...
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