Descriptions behind Buildings/Tools/Vehicles

[Wim van de Griendt]

If you could show us some links with info, that would be nice. In my research on this, I came accross kilns for turning wood into charcoal. And they could be quit big. Therefor we use kilns for this, but we could introduce a furnace like you describe, but then give us some info we cna look into.

[The Hunter]

I think kilns are both... The big structures, either of brick, or the clay ones, needed to be built every time a new batch was produced. Today a kiln is used for pottery but kiln is a word used for both.

Merriam Webster:
Main Entry: kiln
Pronunciation: 'kiln, 'kil
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, from Latin culina kitchen, from coquere to cook -- more at COOK
: an oven, furnace, or heated enclosure used for processing a substance by burning, firing, or drying

Kiln pics:









And several 100 more where that came from.

[west]

Oh, another thing as far as that goes. I built a small smelting furnace, which showed up as a primitive smelting furnace in my building, but it won't do steel, only refine iron ore. There should be some sort of descriptor, even calling it a 'primitive smelting furnace' on the machinery list would help. because I thought a small smelting furnace was just a small smelting furnace.

[The Hunter]

Same here, alas, it was not meant to be...

Damn pic's dont work... Anyway, try googl;e pic search:

http://images.google.nl/images?q=kiln+% ... rt=20&sa=N

[Spectrus_Wolfus]

i think west if you go back to the machinery list you'll see that it now is called a primitive furnace i oly saw this when i was seeing how long my small furnace was going to take to finish building

[Sho]

In real life, I'm making charcoal with a simple home-made alcohol lamp. Granted, the quantities are pretty small, but it is possible to make charcoal without a kiln.

[Spectrus_Wolfus]

If you could show us some links with info, that would be nice. In my research on this, I came accross kilns for turning wood into charcoal. And they could be quit big. Therefor we use kilns for this, but we could introduce a furnace like you describe, but then give us some info we cna look into.

i'll see if i can find some link's but that may hard as i have coe across this in a few book's i've read in the past and not online(damn those paper things) but will certainly get cracking on it shouldn't take too long


*edit* not long at all really hehe i found 2 site's the first has pictures and the second has a lot more detail.
[url]http://www.durham.gov.uk/durhamcc/usp.nsf/pws/Killhope+-+Medieval+Charcoal+Burning
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[url]http://www.regia.org/charcoal.htm
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