Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A reverberatory furnace (which see, under
furnace ). - noun An air-heating furnace for warming apartments.
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Examples
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An air-furnace, such as is now employed in heating churches and other buildings, should be constructed in the cellar, and so arranged as to draw from the feeding-rooms all the air necessary to supply the furnace.
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In a regular cocoonery, properly ventilated and supplied with an air-furnace, dry air should be made to circulate freely.
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Tilly's air-furnace with such success as I thought would justify the erection of a small air-furnace at the Forge for the more perfectly ascertaining the merit of the invention.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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Tilly's air-furnace with such success as I thought would justify the erection of a small air-furnace at the Forge for the more perfectly ascertaining the merit of the invention.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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At a later period, he erected an air-furnace, in which he cast brass cannon and church bells.
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A small air-furnace with a sand-bath was prepared; and I very soon learned to change the glass alembics, with a piece of burning match-cord, into vessels in which the different mixtures were to be evaporated.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
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