melting furnace

method, process, technology

A furnace for the industrial smelting of ores, metals and glass.

Traveljournal 1794

Saxony, Brandenburg and Hamburg, spring to October 1793

Traveljournal 1814

Birmingham’s “Altar to Vulcan”, 27 August 1814
First encounter with malleable cast iron in Birmingham, 30 August 1814
Exploring the Black Country on horseback with James Watt, 29 August 1814

Traveljournal 1825

Cooperation with Henry Adcock, 16 June 1825
Birmingham–Manchester, 17 June 1825
Visit to the engineering firm of Taylor & Martineau, 15 July 1825

Traveljournal 1825–1827

Father and son visit the Woolwich Arsenal, 26 September 1827

Traveljournal 1845

Fischer writes a letter to his granddaughter, 29 July 1845
Journey to Sheffield and a visit to an old acquaintance, 31 July 1845
Turton, Huntsman and Chinese tea, 1 August 1845

Traveljournal 1846

“Hochrheinbahn”, steel casting and street paving, 21 October 1846

Traveljournal 1851

Further highlights of the Exhibition, 29 June 1851
Fischer’s business visits in Sheffield, 7 July 1851

Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.

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Cite as: melting furnace. In: Travel Reports of a Pioneer: Digital Edition of the Travel Journals of Johann Conrad Fischer 1794–1851. Published by Franziska Eggimann. Edited by Franziska Eggimann, Nicolau Lutz, Valerija Rukavina und Christopher Zoller-Blundell. Schlatt 2023, Version 1.2, https://johannconradfischer.com/en/keywords/gfa-keywords-2908, viewed on 6 June 2025.

[[title]] — The design of smelting furnaces as in use at the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries (plate from Wehrle, 1841)