So apparently this was a true blast furnace and not merely a bloomery. |
This pumping of airstream in with bellows is known as cold blast, and it increases the fuel efficiency of the bloomery and improves yield. |
This was the first time he had been thus summoned since that unlucky winter evening at bloomery Gap. |
In 1695, John Hathaway, who settled in nearby Freetown, in company with other citizens, set up a bloomery known as Chartley Iron Works on Stony Brook. |
When a Catalan forge is employed in making blooms, it is called a bloomery. |
The final version of this kind of bloomery hearth survived in Spain until the 19th century. |