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* [[Furnace, Ceredigion]], a village in Ceredigion, Wales |
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Revision as of 14:58, 23 December 2021
Look up furnace in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Furnace may refer to:
Appliances
- Buildings
- Furnace (house heating): a furnace (American English), or a heater/boiler (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
- Industry
- Industrial furnace, a device used in industrial applications
- Metallurgical furnace, a device used to heat metal and metal ore
- Blast furnace
- Industrial furnace
- Jetstream furnace (later called Tempest wood-burning boiler), an advanced design of wood-fired water heaters
- Muffle furnace
- Basic oxygen furnace
- Bessemer converter
- 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