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A beehive oven is a type of oven in use since the Middle Ages in Europe. [1] It gets its name from its domed shape, which resembles that of a skep , an old-fashioned type of beehive . Its apex of popularity occurred in the Americas and Europe all the way until the Industrial Revolution, which saw the advent of gas and electric ovens.
Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park is an area designated for historic preservation and public recreation located 20 miles (32 km) south of the town of Ely in White Pine County, Nevada. The 700-acre (280 ha) state park protects beehive-shaped charcoal ovens constructed in the latter half of the 19th century.
The Elkins Coal and Coke Company Historic District is a historic industrial site near the crossroads village of Bretz in Preston County, West Virginia.It is the site of the last major coke manufacturing facility to use beehive ovens, and was a major industrial site in northern West Virginia in the first half of the 20th century.
The function of the "beehive" coke ovens was to purify coal and turn it into coke. The coke was burned in furnaces that produced iron and steel. The site, also known as Cherry Valley Coke Ovens Arboretum, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. An Ohio Historical Marker was added in 1999.
Apart from a few building foundations in the town center, and the railroad tracks at the edge of the now-abandoned town site, Cochran's last (and most notable) remains are five largely intact beehive coke ovens across the Gila River at Butte, Arizona. (These coke ovens are actually from an earlier town that existed before Cochrane came into ...
Horno (/ ˈ ɔːr n oʊ / OR-noh; Spanish:) is a mud adobe-built outdoor oven used by the Native Americans and the early settlers of North America. [1] Originally introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors, it was quickly adopted and carried to all Spanish-occupied lands. [2] The horno has a beehive shape and uses wood as the heat source. [3]
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Pages in category "Ovens" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. ... Beehive oven; C. Chorkor oven; Clay oven; Clome oven; Communal oven ...