04-21-2024, 04:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-21-2024, 05:31 AM by Sean Manning.)
I did not know this study by Hans-Peter Kuhnen!
People who experiment with simple furnaces sometimes create cast iron accidentally (just like its easier to make a lump which is part steel than a lump of nothing but nice soft malleable iron).
I believe that a number of traditional high-temperature furnaces uses hills to get access to fast-moving air above ground level without building high smoke stacks. That would be one reason to put the furnace in Säben on a north-south Alpine pass (the valley south of the Brenner Pass), but I would want to read the study by Hans-Peter Kuhnen and why he thinks the cast iron was deliberately produced. Journalists have trouble with technical and natural-scientific topics and university press-release offices sex things up.
It might be worth asking Helmut Föll about this although I think Hans-Peter Kuhnen published after Föll retired.
People who experiment with simple furnaces sometimes create cast iron accidentally (just like its easier to make a lump which is part steel than a lump of nothing but nice soft malleable iron).
I believe that a number of traditional high-temperature furnaces uses hills to get access to fast-moving air above ground level without building high smoke stacks. That would be one reason to put the furnace in Säben on a north-south Alpine pass (the valley south of the Brenner Pass), but I would want to read the study by Hans-Peter Kuhnen and why he thinks the cast iron was deliberately produced. Journalists have trouble with technical and natural-scientific topics and university press-release offices sex things up.
It might be worth asking Helmut Föll about this although I think Hans-Peter Kuhnen published after Föll retired.
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I have not checked this forum frequently since 2013, but I hope that these old posts have some value. I now have a blog on books, swords, and the curious things humans do with them.
I have not checked this forum frequently since 2013, but I hope that these old posts have some value. I now have a blog on books, swords, and the curious things humans do with them.
