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    A blowing house or blowing mill was a building used for smelting tin in Cornwall and on Dartmoor in Devon, in South West England. Blowing houses contained...
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    chimney flue. According to this broad definition, bloomeries for iron, blowing houses for tin, and smelt mills for lead would be classified as blast furnaces...
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    precursor to the blast furnace that produces sponge iron from ore The blowing house, a traditional furnace for smelting tin The smeltmill, a traditional...
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    500 metres (550 yd) downstream to the east are the remains of an old blowing house roughly 4 metres (13 ft 1 in) by 6 metres (19 ft 8 in). A number of...
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    "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" is a popular American song written in 1918, released in late 1919, becoming a number one hit for Ben Selvin's Novelty Orchestra...
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  • "Blowing the Whistle" is the fifteenth episode of the eighth season of House and the 170th overall. It aired on April 2, 2012, on FOX. The episode begins...
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  • Vogue (Cornish: Fog, meaning blowing house or furnace) is a hamlet in the parish of St Day, Cornwall, England. At Vogue there was a mine called Wheal...
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    blow vertically, causing light objects to float upwards into the sky. Blowing Rock is the site of Glen Burney Falls and Glen Marie Falls. The Blowing...
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    taxation of first and second smeltings. The introduction of the efficient blowing house process in around 1300 allowed the use of just one smelting. Later still...
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    fan. Blowing engines are majorly used to provide the air blast for furnaces, blast furnaces and other forms of smelter. The very first blowing engines...
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