U. S. Bureau of Mines Collection - C-560-BC Furnace for Sintering Compacts

Photograph

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Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum

0022:0147: U. S. Bureau of Mines Collection - C-560-BC Furnace for Sintering Compacts ["The compacts or shapes made by pressing metallic powders have a metallic appearance, but do not have high strength. In order to increase their strength, they are 'sintered' or heated at a temperature below their melting point, in a vacuum or inert gas. This causes the separate grains from which the article was formed to weld together into a single solid mass of greater strength. The photo shows equipment for vacuum sintering of compacts form in the 2,000-ton press. This furnace is electrically heated, using silicon carbide rods."]
0022:0147

U. S. Bureau of Mines Collection - C-560-BC Furnace for Sintering Compacts ["The compacts or shapes made by pressing metallic powders have a metallic appearance, but do not have high strength. In order to increase their strength, they are 'sintered' or heated at a temperature below their melting point, in a vacuum or inert gas. This causes the separate grains from which the article was formed to weld together into a single solid mass of greater strength. The photo shows equipment for vacuum sintering of compacts form in the 2,000-ton press. This furnace is electrically heated, using silicon carbide rods."]

Name/Title

U. S. Bureau of Mines Collection - C-560-BC Furnace for Sintering Compacts

Entry/Object ID

0022:0147

Description

U. S. Bureau of Mines Collection - C-560-BC Furnace for Sintering Compacts ["The compacts or shapes made by pressing metallic powders have a metallic appearance, but do not have high strength. In order to increase their strength, they are 'sintered' or heated at a temperature below their melting point, in a vacuum or inert gas. This causes the separate grains from which the article was formed to weld together into a single solid mass of greater strength. The photo shows equipment for vacuum sintering of compacts form in the 2,000-ton press. This furnace is electrically heated, using silicon carbide rods."]

Collection

US Bureau of Mines, Boulder City Businesses

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

U. S. Dept. of the Interior - Bureau of Mines

Role

Photographer

Time Period

not provided

Notes

Original or Negative: Original

Location

Location

* Untyped Location

Research Room, Photo Drawer 11

Date

June 22, 2026

Created By

[email protected]

Create Date

February 2, 2024

Updated By

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Update Date

June 22, 2026