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	Kiln - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Kilns are an essential part of the manufacture of all ceramics, which, by definition, require heat treatment, often at high temperature.
		The kiln is sealed and the internal temperature increased according to a schedule.
		Traditional anagama kilns are also built on a slope to allow for a better draft.A style of kiln known as Kazegama, "Wind kiln" in Japanese, was developed by Steve Davis of the USA in 1997 as an alternative to traditional wood firing practices such as those achieved in an Anagama.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Kiln (1682 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: San Bernadino Asistencia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Included were the all of the buildings of the Asistencia which included a tile kiln, a lime kiln, and a grist mill.
		Charcoal Kilns, California A kiln is an oven that is used for hardening, burning, or drying anything.
		Postcard of the reconstructed Mission Santa Bárbara The California missions are a series of settlements established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans, to Christianize the local Native Americans, but with the added benefit of giving Spain a toehold in the frontier land.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/San-Bernadino-Asistencia (941 words)

	Kiln - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber or oven in which a controlled temperature regime is produced.
		Kilns are an essential part of the manufacture of all ceramics, which, by definition, require high temperature treatment.
		Kilns operated by electricity were developed in the 20th century, primarily for smaller scale use such as in schools, universities, and hobby centers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kiln (952 words)

	Architecture of the California missions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		California was literally months away from the nearest base in Mexico, and the cargo ships of the day were too small to carry more than a few months' rations in their holds.
		California adobes measured 22 by 11 inches, were two to five inches thick, and weighed 20 to 40 pounds (9 to 18 kg), making them convenient to carry and easy to handle during the construction process.
		The impact that mission architecture has had on the modern buildings of California is readily apparent in the many civic, commercial, and residential structures which exhibit the tile roofs, arched door and window openings, and stuccoed walls that typify the "mission look".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Architecture_of_the_California_missions (3543 words)

	Kiln - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Kilns have been used for converting wood into charcoal or to dry green lumber so that the lumber can be used immediately.
		Kilns are also used for cremation (at high temperature) and drying of tobacco leaves (at low temperature).
		Kilns are also used to chemically refine clay objects by heating them until a chrystaline matrix of silica and alumina forms, to make them hard and durable.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kiln (391 words)

	Kiln - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kilns have been used for converting wood into charcoal and are used to heat dried clay objects in order to make them hard and durable in a process referred to as firing.
		A kiln is required to come to a high temperature, and so the design of the ovens normally focuses on insulation, and the ability to add fuel over a course of time.
		Kilns have been made for as long as there has been pottery and items made of clay.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Kiln (227 words)

	Quaest.io on Kiln
		Kilns are used to transform a clay based article into a ceramic material.
		The majority of modern pottery kilns, whether producing industrial ware or handmade pottery and sculptural work, burn natural gas, as it is generally clean, efficient and easy to control.
		Kilns heated by electricity were developed in the 20th century, primarily for use in schools, universities, and hobby centers.
	www.quaest.io /?title=Kiln (853 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Kilns are thermally insulated chambers, or ovens, in which a controlled temperature regimes are produced.
		While modern kilns often have sophisticated electrical systems to control the firing temperatures, pyrometric devices have been used to provide visual indication of the firing regime since around 1000 AD.
		Electric kilns - kilns operated by electricity were developed in the 20th century, primarily for smaller scale use such as in schools, universities, and hobby centers.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=kilns (1736 words)

	Charcoal Kilns California A kiln is an oven oven that is... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Charcoal Kilns California A kiln is an oven oven that is...
		Charcoal Kilns, California A "kiln" is an oven oven that is used for hardening, burning, or drying anything.
		Kilns have been used for converting wood into charcoal charcoal and are used to heat dried clay clay objects in order to make them hard and durable in a process referred to as firing.
	www.biodatabase.de /kiln (265 words)

	Science News
		That's the case even though charcoal is made from wood that removed globe-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it was growing.
		Charcoal is produced by burning wood, brush, or grass with a limited supply of oxygen.
		In the long run, the net effect of charcoal on the climate is nil because the wood used to produce charcoal was formed from carbon dioxide by photosynthesis.
	www.phschool.com /science/science_news/articles/charcoal_warms_world.html (536 words)

	Wildrose Charcoal Kilns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The charcoal produced by the kilns was to be used as fuel for two silver-lead smelters that Hearst had built in the Argus Range 25 miles to the west.
		Considered to be the best surviving examples of such kilns to be found in the western states, the kilns owe their longevity to fine workmanship and to the fact that they were in use for such a short time.
		The Wildrose Charcoal kilns are located in Wildrose Canyon on the western side of Death Valley National Park.
	www.nps.gov /deva/Charcoal.htm (261 words)

	Charcoal King and Early Smelting in Utah
		The best-preserved oven is a dome-shaped structure representative of the eastern beehive-type kiln.
		Their walls were thicker at the base and had two openings: one two-thirds up the wall for feeding wood into the kiln and drawing the fire and one at the base, presumably for removing concentrates and ashes.
		The charcoal is obtained under contract, from the adjacent mountains, and produced chiefly from nut pine, delivered at the works at twenty-one to twenty-two and a half cents per bushel.
	historytogo.utah.gov /utah_chapters/mining_and_railroads/charcoalkingandearlysmeltinginutah.html (748 words)

	California Stone Industry (historical account up to circa 1950) - Continued
		From all indications it would appear that the construction of the kilns was a costly and fairly long-term project such as would have been undertaken either by a group of people intending to establish a large settlement or by some group of individuals intending to exploit the limestone deposit for a ready and profitable market.
		In this lease the kilns were mentioned, as they constituted one of the boundary markers; the lease also stated that the kilns were being operated by a Spaniard, who may have employed by Shorb and Mercer.
		By trenching the dumps in front of the kilns and by counting the sequence of layers of charcoal-ash and overburned limestone, it has been determined that no one kiln has been fired more than four times, and that there have probably been no more than 12 firings for all the kilns.
	www.cagenweb.com /quarries/states/ca/stone_industry/ca-stone_indust_upto1950_3.html (4775 words)

	Wildrose Charcoal Kilns, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Since coal does not occur naturally in the area, the charcoal kilns were built up in the Panamint Mountains to convert wood from the pinion pine trees to coal.
		The construction of the ten kilns began in 1877.
		The diameter of the kilns at the base measured around 30 feet, with a average height of 25 feet, and a thickness of the walls at the base of around 2 feet thick thus giving each Kiln a capacity of 42 cords of wood.
	ghosttownexplorers.org /california/wildrose/wildrose.htm (177 words)

	Wildrose Charcoal Kilns, California
		Since coal does not occur naturally in the area, the charcoal kilns were built up in the Panamint Mountains to convert wood from the pinion pine trees to coal.
		The construction of the ten kilns began in 1877.
		The diameter of the kilns at the base measured around 30 feet, with a average height of 25 feet, and a thickness of the walls at the base of around 2 feet thick thus giving each Kiln a capacity of 42 cords of wood.
	www.ghosttownexplorers.org /california/wildrose/wildrose.htm (177 words)

	Home Kiln
		thumb250pxCharcoal Kilns, California A kiln is an oven that is used for hardening, burning, or drying anything.
		Kiln is located at 30°24'46" North, 89°26'8" West (30.412874, -89.435417).
		The distinctive chimney of a Single Malt Scotch kiln at the Laphroaig distillery on Islay in Scotland.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/81/home-kiln.html (1026 words)

	Owens Valley Cottonwood Kilns, California !
		The wood was turned into charcoal in these kilns.
		The bullion which was then taken out by the reverse of this route and hauled to Los Angeles on Remi Nadeau's freight wagons and played a major part in the building of that little Pueblo into the city of today.
		The sign has been moved from the kilns out to the hi-way where you turn off.
	www.robertwynn.com /phptrak.php?http://www.robertwynn.com/Cottonwood.htm (235 words)

	Ward, and the Charcoal Ovens in White Pine County, Nevada
		The date the charcoal ovens were built is not recorded in available historical documents; like other projects that were viewed as common, unglamorous and routine in their time, charcoal production was not worthy of note.
		INCENDIARY FIRE.- Six stone charcoal kilns, filled with coal burned at the time the furnaces shut down, the property of the Martin White Company, were found to be on fire Thursday morning last.
		The damaged kiln (#5) is the second west in the row of ovens.
	www.webpanda.com /white_pine_county/historical_society/Ghost_Towns/wardhist.htm (1729 words)

	Charcoal fuel gets green light \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		The research team, led by Dan Kammen of the University of California, Berkeley, predicted the health and environmental effects of introducing new fuel-use and land-management strategies, either gradually (over the next 50 years) or rapidly (within 10 to 15 years).
		Although charcoal is the leading urban fuel in Africa and releases less indoor particulate matter when burned than wood, its use does not garner much support from policy-makers or environmentalists.
		Furthermore, the technologies to make charcoal more cleanly and efficiently, such as permanent brick or steel kilns with systems to control emissions, could be easily implemented.
	www.energybulletin.net /5255.html (757 words)

	Energy: Improved Cookstoves and Charcoal Production
		Charcoal contains less energy than the wood from which it is made, because energy is required to fire the kiln and volatile gasses are removed.
		This unusual charcoal kiln design was developed in a research project in Ghana, in an effort to minimize foreign exchange costs and total wood handling and labor costs.
		The traditional earth pit/mound kilns could be constructed on the spot of use, but had high labor costs associated with covering the mounds with earth and sifting the charcoal from the top layer of dirt, which tended to collapse into the pit during or after firing.
	www.villageearth.org /atnetwork/atsourcebook/chapters/energycookstoves.htm (7102 words)

	Bessie Brady Steamer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The charcoal was delivered across the lake to the smelters and, on the return trip she carried the silver-lead ingots to the docks of Cartago at the southern end of Owens Lake.
		The charcoal kilns were decaying and the log stockpile lay dead in the Sierra Nevadas.
		The decaying charcoal kilns which sit like giant bee hives in the desert can be seen on the west side of the lake.
	www.owensvalleyhistory.com /bessie_brady/page23.html (985 words)

	California
		California Historical Societies and Museums, presented by The California Historical Quarterly, formerly known as the Dogtown Territorial Quarterly.
		The California Newspaper Project (CNP) The project is "managed by the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside, under the direction of Dr. Henry L. Snyder, constitutes a major effort to identify and preserve the state's history and heritage as reflected in its newspapers.
		Historical Topographic Maps of California, presented by the Regents of the University of California.
	www.cagenweb.com /quarries/states/ca/california.html (9173 words)

	Re: Central city & Charcoal Kilns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I would agree that, based on the photograph, the brick construct is some type of kiln.
		In addition, unlike the charcoal kilns, which are located in Death Valley, California, there is only one kiln in this location.
		This was slowburned for a week to produce up to 2000 bushels of charcoal for the mine smelters to use for fuel.
	www.ghosttowns.com /wwwboard/messages/4025.html (588 words)

	POINTS OF VIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The brick kilns for charcoal-making kilns and especially the large rectangular kilns (Missouri style) are more efficient and less polluting than the traditional earth-mound kilns.
		When the traditional charcoal maker feels that he is viewed and observed he raises his profile in his family and community and therefore does all what he can to succeed in the trial we are monitoring.
		The kilning temperature is higher with dry wood because of the primitive technique and therefore the charcoal obtained is too pure, more brittle, containing less volatile.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/003/y0909E/y0909e10.htm (2455 words)

	Motorcycle Trip to Death Valley, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I was born in Brazil and my wife and I moved to USA, California in 1996, for a change in our lives.
		It took us some time to learn the language and get into this country, but I think we are doing very well expect the learning a new language after 35 is not easy.
		My wife and I we love to travel and by the time I was writing this page, we have logged more them 100.000 miles on few motorcycles we had and now we are riding this BMW K1200LT 2002 and the BMW R1150GS 2003, many more miles on our car and much more on the airplane.
	www.viajareua.com /Death_Valley4.html (808 words)

	Historic Evanston Photos
		Timber Flume and Charcoal Kilns, Hilliard, Wyo., 1885
		Of those kilns the only remnants are three kilms and the ruins of a fourth on private property at Piedmont, also a ghost town.
		Byrne constructed the charcoal kilns in the above photo and Guild established one of the first ranches in the Territory.
	www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com /evanston.html (687 words)

	CBC News: Switch from wood-burning stoves to charcoal offers health benefits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		By shifting from buring wood to burning charcoal, premature deaths in sub-Saharan Africa could be prevented.
		Dan Kammen of the University of California, Berkeley, led the study on the health and environmental effects of a new fuel.
		Using brick or steel kilns in combination with emission controls could make charcoal burning a cleaner, more efficient option for the continent.
	www.cbc.ca /story/science/national/2005/03/31/charcoal-burn050331.html?ref=rss (897 words)

	Emissions of greenhouse gases and other airborne pollutants from charcoal making in Kenya and Brazil
		Airborne emissions from charcoal-making kilns commonly used in Kenya and Brazil were measured during typical operating conditions.
		The conversion of wood carbon to charcoal carbon ranged from 37 to 69%, depending on kiln type.
		Emission factors, expressed as grams of pollutant per kilogram of charcoal produced, for the eight kilns ranged from 543 to 3027 for CO
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2001/2000JD000041.shtml (406 words)

	charcoal stock images / stock images of charcoal photos search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Making charcoal from stripped teak bark Protani teak fore...
		Hamburger about to be flipped by a spatula, on an outdoor grill with hot do...
		SOLTI, Georg conducting with baton Charcoal drawing by Zsuzsi Roboz Hungari...
	www.photographersdirect.com /stockimages/c/charcoal.asp (470 words)

	Wildrose charcoal kilns, California history, Death Valley mining
		These bee-hive shaped kilns were used in the 1800's for making charcoal, that was used in nearby mining operations.
		Standing 30' high, these kilns were only used for a few years and are some of the best preserved charcoal kilns in the country.
		The drive up on old paved roads is a bumpy one; The nearby campgrounds are Wildrose, Thorndike and mountain ridged Mahogany Flat.
	www.totalescape.com /active/campstuff/NP/interest/charkilns.html (195 words)

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