The Preservation of Glass Furnace Refractories by Water-cooling

JSGT_1920_V04_T128_T138 (15 pages including 4 of plates)

It is very many years since it was first recognised that the useful life of any furnace used for a purpose requiring great heat was limited by the progress of the art of brick manufacture. The natural cooling or preserving agent was water, but it has been a slow process teaching furnace users that a water-cooled device is not necessarily a dangerous one.

E. B. Christmas