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 Jetstream furnaces (later tempest wood-burning boilers), were an advanced design of wood-fired water heaters conceived by Dr. Richard Hill of the University of Maine in Orono, Maine, USA. The design heated a house to prove the theory, then, with g ...

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 fu ...

** 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 The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. The key principle is removal of impurities from the iron by oxidation with ...

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 An induction furnace is an electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal. Induction furnace capacities range from less than one kilogram to one hundred tons, and are used to melt iron and steel, copper, aluminu ...

** Open hearth furnace ** Puddling furnace ** Reverberatory furnace

Places

United Kingdom

Furnace, Argyll Furnace ( gd, An Fhùirneis) (formerly Inverleacainn ( gd, Inbhir Leacainn)) is a village in Argyll and Bute, on the west coast of Scotland, on the north shore of Loch Fyne, the longest sea loch in the United Kingdom. Furnace is around eight mi ...

, 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 Furnace ( cy, Ffwrnais) is a hamlet in Ceredigion, Wales on the A487 trunk road from Machynlleth to Aberystwyth, near Eglwysfach. It is the location of the Dyfi Furnace, used from the 1750s to the 19th century to make pig iron with charcoal ...

, a village in Ceredigion, Wales

United States

Furnace, California Greenwater (formerly, Ramsey, The Camp, and Kunze) was an unincorporated community near Death Valley located in the eastern side of the Inyo County, California. It is now a deserted ghost town. Geography Greenwater is located north of Funeral ...

, a former settlement *

Furnace, Indiana Furnace is an unincorporated community in Richland Township, Greene County, Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and ...

, a small town *

Furnace, Kentucky Furnace is an unincorporated community located in Estill County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It ...

Furnace, Virginia Furnace is an unincorporated community in Page County, in the U.S. state of Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic ...

Furnace, West Virginia Furnace was an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers ...

Dover Furnace station Dover Furnace was a station on the Harlem Line of the New York Central Railroad (now Metro-North Railroad). It was north from Grand Central Terminal in New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is t ...

, New York *

Furnace Creek, California Furnace Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States. The population was 136 at the 2020 census, up from 24 at the 2010 census. The elevation of the village is below sea level. Furnace Creek holds the record ...

, 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 (born 1943), American businessman and politician