I do my darndest to recreate a 1800's lab furnace described by faraday himself. This insane amalgamation of clay and sheet metal is rumored to be able to melt iron among other feats routinely performed at the Royal Institute of London nearly 200 years ago.

This is the fourth entry in my ScrapCraeft project series where i am trying to outfit my off-grid workshop with tools made entirely of scrap and natural material.

My video on Al-Razi and the alchemist's clay:    • Enhancing clay with alchemy  

My video on the Ancient Forge:
   • Building An Ancient Tech Forge For My...  

The book in which this furnace is described is 'chemical Manipulation' by Faraday

For more information about the evolution of fire in the early industrial revolution I highly suggest Ruth Goodman's 'Domestic Revolution'

For more information about the history of chemistry specifically pertaining to the concept of the "philosophers by fire" I learned about it in Principie and Newman's 'Alchemy Tried in the Fire'