A furnace is a structure in which heat is produced with the help of combustion. Furnace may also refer to:

Appliances

Buildings

* Furnace (central heating): a furnace , or a heater or boiler , 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 * Jetstream furnace or Tempest boiler, a design of wood-fired water heater

Industry

* Industrial furnace, a device used in industrial applications **

Glass melting furnace A glass melting furnace is designed to melt raw materials into glass. Depending on the intended use, there are various designs of glass melting furnaces available. They use different power sources. These sources are mainly fossil fueled or by f ...

** Muffle furnace or retort furnace ** Solar furnace ** Vacuum furnace *

Metallurgical furnace A metallurgical furnace, more commonly referred to as a furnace, is a device used to heat and melt metal ore to remove gangue, primarily in Metal, iron and steel production. The heat energy to fuel a furnace may be supplied directly by fuel comb ...

, a device used to heat metal and metal ore ** Basic oxygen furnace ** Bessemer converter **

Blast furnace A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper. ''Blast'' refers to the combustion air being "forced" or supplied above atmospheric ...

Bloomery A bloomery is a type of metallurgical furnace once used widely for smelting iron from its oxides. The bloomery was the earliest form of smelter capable of smelting iron. Bloomeries produce a porous mass of iron and slag called a ''bloom ...

** Electric arc furnace ** Electric induction furnace ** Open hearth furnace ** Puddling furnace ** Reverberatory furnace

Places

United Kingdom

* Furnace, Argyll, a village in Scotland *

Furnace, Carmarthenshire Furnace (or Welsh Ffwrnes) is a village near the town of Llanelli in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales.

, 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

* , four ships of the Royal Navy *

Walt Furnace Walter Ray Furnace (born December 31, 1943) is an American politician and businessman. Background Furnace was born in Ennis, Texas and graduated from the George Carter High School. He served in the United States Air Force. He settled in Anchorage ...

(born 1943), American businessman and politician