1942 steel slab cutting - photo

[Jon]

Cutting a steel slab. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. 1942.

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Previously:

Machine for cutting steel into hairs for sculptures - video
Cutting torch explosion - GIF
Cutting rock slabs in China - GIFs
Cutting a huge pipe while straddling it - GIF
Cutting torch cutaway - photo
Fast laser cutting machine - GIF
Track torch for cutting pipe - GIF
Sheetmetal circle cutting - GIF
Cutting an impeller with a waterjet - GIF
Automated laser steel cutting - GIF

[Frank S]

That looks like a precursor to the magnetic tracing or the optic eye panna graph machines