Inspecting massive pressure pipes - photo

[Altair]

Inspecting massive hydroelectric plant pressure pipes, Vernayaz, Switzerland, 1938.

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Previously:

HDPE pipe fusion machine - photo and video
Cutting a huge pipe while straddling it - GIF
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Giant pipe bender - GIF
Industrial pipe expansion joints - photo

[mlochala]

That looks just amazing to me. I know the industrial revolution in was in full tilt back then, but it's still amazing realizing that they could design and build such things as well as they did then. Today, we have so many technical tools at our disposal (CAD/CAM technology, etc.) but back then it was pen, paper, willpower and muscle.

Respect!