Furnace Explained

Furnace may refer to:

Appliances

Buildings

• Furnace (central heating): a furnace, or a heater or boiler, 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
  • Bloomery
  • Electric arc furnace
  • Induction furnace
  • Open hearth furnace
  • Puddling furnace
  • Reverberatory furnace

Places

United Kingdom

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

United States

• Furnace, California, a former settlement
• Furnace, Indiana, a small town
• Furnace, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Furnace, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Furnace, West Virginia, a former unincorporated community
• Furnace Creek (disambiguation), various streams

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

• , series of books by author Alexander Gordon Smith
• The Furnace (magazine), a literary magazine
  • The Furnace, a 1907 novel by Rose Macaulay "The Furnace" (short story), by Stephen King

Music

• Furnace (album), by Download, 1995
• Furnace, a 1972 album by Keith Hudson
• Furnaces (2016), album by Ed Harcourt

Other uses

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

See also

• • Fire test
• Foundry
• Furness (disambiguation)
• Oil refinery
• Oven
• Smelter