[HN Gopher] Casting pig iron at the Iroquois smelter
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       Casting pig iron at the Iroquois smelter
        
       Author : ivanech
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2021-11-27 14:26 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | pfdietz wrote:
       | "Modern pig casting machines produce stick pigs, which break into
       | smaller 4-10 kg piglets at discharge." -- wikipedia page on pig
       | iron
        
       | kodah wrote:
       | Evil feels like the wrong word and oddly placed at that.
        
         | afandian wrote:
         | Seems like a direct reference to William Blake's 'satanic
         | mills'.
        
         | randallsquared wrote:
         | Many people equate "evil" and "harmful" implicitly.
        
           | kodah wrote:
           | Are you saying this is more harm prevention/safteyism
           | rhetoric?
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | tribler wrote:
       | If you like iron making. The old way is on display here, an
       | original blast furnace from 1693 in Belgium. Very rare.
       | 
       | http://www.mmil.be/
        
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