History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c13.s4.52

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This photograph has been taken by the author during his trip to Bastar in 1981 and it shows the use of a stone anvil for hot forging small iron objects. Mahamud has described the design of a reverberatory type furnace which was being used for a long time in Assam for annealing and probably malleablizing of Fe-C alloys. Fig.59 shows a drawing of this furnace which is very similar to the modern reverberatory furnace where the flame is diverted back from the roof to strike the charge and heat it.