High-quality black-and-white photographs of large old machines and tools

[Jon]

Mesta Machine Company. 1905/1925.

Fullsize image: https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net...1_fullsize.jpg

[IntheGroove]

I like the crack repair...

[Jon]

Interior of the Homestead Steel Works at the Carnegie Steel Company. Homestead, PA. 1893.

Fullsize image: https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net...0_fullsize.jpg

[Jon]

An overhead crane lifts a blooming mill at the Mesta Machine Company. 1905/1925.

Fullsize image: https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net...0_fullsize.jpg

[Jon]

Roll Turning Department at the Mesta Machine Company. West Homestead, PA. 1905/1925.

Fullsize image: https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net...6_fullsize.jpg

[Jon]

Mesta Machine Company interior view. West Homestead, PA. 1905/1925.

Fullsize image: https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net...6_fullsize.jpg

[IntheGroove]

Customer: I need a big Wacker-Smacker
Mesta sales person: What do you want to wack and how hard you want to smack it...

[Ed Weldon]

I'm speechless. All I can think of are subjects that are inappropriate for this forum.

[mr mikey]

I would love to see this machine in action.

[IntheGroove]

I would bet that that machine had to be disassembled to be brought to where it went to work. It's on a pallet but I doubt there is a forklift big enough to lift it...