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[]
Categories:
- Disambiguation pages
- Place name disambiguation pages
- Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists