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

[Jon]

10,000 ton press at the Schoen Steel Wheel Works. McKees Rocks, PA. July, 1939.

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[Jon]

Mesta Machine Company forging press under construction. West Homestead, PA. March, 1918.

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[Jon]

Mesta Machine Company roll lathe. 1905/1925.

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[Jon]

Machinery inside the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's Garrison Alley Plant. Circa 1900.

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[Toolmaker51]

Any notice the bolted wood timber framework?
It's just bridge for their bridge crane rails, end truck visible upper right.

[hemmjo]

I did not notice that!! Good Eye.

[Jon]

A worker operates a main bed transverse drive beam at the Aliquippa Works of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. Pennsylvania. April, 1952.

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[IntheGroove]

That's how you build another machine...

[Toolmaker51]

Never fails to intrigue me, the immense amount of capital equipment and footprint 'we' had, without considering those concentrating only on consumer goods.

[Jon]

Interior of the Forge Department at the Mesta Machine Company. West Homestead, PA. March, 1918.

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