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Coreless Induction Furnace - Southern Ductile Casting Company, Bessemer Foundry, 2217 Carolina Avenue, Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL
Photographer
Trussell, Travis, creator
Title
Coreless Induction Furnace - Southern Ductile Casting Company, Bessemer Foundry, 2217 Carolina Avenue, Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL
Depicted place Alabama; Jefferson County; Bessemer
Date 1995
date QS:P571,+1995-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 34 x 44 in. (E size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER ALA,37-BES,5- (sheet 5 of 9)
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  • Significance: Southern Ductile grew from a very small, unautomated, traditional jobbing foundry into a highly mechanized and automated firm, generally uncharacteristic for the type of contact work it did. It was one of the first in the Birmingham District to implement ductile iron that, over the course of its first thirty years, virtually replaced malleable iron and severely limited foundry steel production. Further the company survived a pollution crisis that forced the closure of several smaller firms, by adapting more expensive, but cleaner electric induction furnaces that ultimately proved to be not only a solution to their clean air concerns, but also an ideal medium to manufacture ductile iron.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N177
  • Survey number: HAER AL-125
  • Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction
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Citation Carolina Corporation, Owner
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/al1178.sheet.00005a
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Object location33° 24′ 06.01″ N, 86° 57′ 15.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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