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Furnace of Govăjdia

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Furnace of Govăjdia

It was the second industrial blast furnace in the world used for the extraction of iron.It was built in 1806. The first was built close to Hunedoara, in Toplița(1750). Both ovens can be visited today. It was the most modern melting furnace of iron ore in Europe of that time. Metal works from the iro

n melted here are standing today at the base of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It was the first furnace in the world with a continuous production process. Until its appearance, the technological process of producing iron supposed to stop for some periods of time for loading and unloading furnaces.It was the first furnace in which the two operations could be performed simultaneously.The furnace worked until the end of the nineteenth century when there were iron plants in Hunedoara. The old furnace was declared a monument of industrial architecture.

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