The machinery and equipment of steelmaking
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Steel plant Basic Oxygen Steel vessel control room. Right up until the closure the research laboratories at Consett were working on ways to make better, cleaner steels. Thanks to David Thompson for the image. 
A familiar sight on the skyline of Consett – the gas holder at Fell Coke Works 
The Basic Oxygen Steel control room, showing the instrumentation that recorded pressures and flows etc. Thanks to David Thompson for the image. 
1882 Two small 13-ton Siemens furnaces were erected to make steel for ship building, soon followed by another 6. 
The ladle pit. Thanks to Joseph Campbell for the image. 
Kaldo unit. Consett was at the fore front of looking at new ways to make better steel. It was the only plant that operated Kaldo and Basic Oxygen Steel making at the same time. 
Fell Coke Works, image courtesy of Stephen Bridgewater
History of Consett Steelworks 