Furnace

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A furnace is a structure in which heat is produced with the help of combustion.

Furnace may also refer to:

Appliances[]

Buildings[]

• Furnace (house heating): a furnace (in American English), or a heater or boiler (in British English), used to generate heat for buildings
• Boiler, used to heat water; also called a furnace in American English when used for heating and hot water in a building
• Jetstream furnace or Tempest boiler, a design of wood-fired water heater

Industry[]

• Industrial furnace, a device used in industrial applications
  • Glass melting furnace
  • Muffle furnace or retort furnace
  • Solar furnace
  • Vacuum furnace
• Metallurgical furnace, a device used to heat metal and metal ore
  • Basic oxygen furnace
  • Bessemer converter
  • Blast furnace
  • Electric arc furnace
  • Electric induction furnace
  • Open hearth furnace
  • Puddling furnace
  • Reverberatory furnace

Places[]

United Kingdom[]

• Furnace, Argyll, a village in Scotland
• Furnace, Carmarthenshire, a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales
• Furnace, Ceredigion, a village in Ceredigion, Wales

United States[]

• Furnace, California, a former settlement
• Furnace, Indiana, a small town
• Furnace, Kentucky
• Furnace, Virginia
• Furnace, West Virginia
• Dover Furnace station, New York
• Furnace Creek, California, a town in Death Valley, California

Arts, entertainment, and media[]

Films[]

• Furnace (film), a 2006 horror film
• The Furnace (1920 film), a film based on the novel The Furnace by "Pan"
• The Furnace (2020 film), an Australian adventure drama film

Literature[]

• Furnace: Lockdown, series of books by author Alexander Gordon Smith
• The Furnace (magazine), a literary magazine
• The Furnace, a 1907 novel by Rose Macaulay

Music[]

• Furnace (Download album), 1995 album by the industrial music group Download
• Furnace (Keith Hudson album), 1972
• Furnaces (2016), album by Ed Harcourt

Other uses[]

• HMS Furnace, four ships of the Royal Navy
• Walt Furnace (born 1943), American businessman and politician

See also[]

• All pages with titles containing Furnace
• Fire test
• Foundry
• Furness (disambiguation)
• Oil refinery
• Oven
• Smelter

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