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Torpedo tube installation during the construction of USS Grayback (SSG-574), 18 November 1955
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Torpedo tube installation during the construction of USS Grayback (SSG-574), 18 November 1955
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It most certainly was, but I guess I missed your point in this discussion. I was merely reliving a few moments of my childhood, not trying to disparage a group of original "Native Americans".Quote:
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Workers making chewing gum at the D.L. Clark Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1948.
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I have made a couple of real mistakes with this block making machine. As a youngen I'd help dad mix concrete for the back yard. Each time some mix was left over we would make concrete blocks. 5 decades on i needed a spot to store the machine (big mistake number 1= I stored it in a shed I had converted from a badly leaking concrete water tank that i converted into a shed complete with wooden hinged door, glass side panel for loght to see the jo blakes & an awning over the doorway: the humidity in ten years has almost destroyed it). Mistake number2 = I decided to restore it by chelating (10%molasses & bal water). I didn't have a container big enough so dug a large hole and lined with viscreen (very durable plastic sheet used under concrete slabs etc). I had help to lower the heavy inem into its temperory home. Alas we had a very big wet and suffered a small land slip of shale & clay which almost buried it.Quote:
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When I went to dig it out there was a dangerous resident in the black plastic so i left well alone until my son visited and we dug & lifted it out. Rather than land fill I have advertised it for restoration or as a garden ornament that a Pandora or other vine can crawl over.
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If I had the time & space I could make many parts (using rusted ones as templates) from quality hardwood but that isn't the case here. I'm culling and storage is a big issue.
Thats an interestingly shaped counterweight on the flow control from the hopper.
A nice work crew photo from the Mesta Machine Company. I believe this is one of their smaller forging presses. 1950s.
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Production of 155-mm artillery shells at the American “Pullman-Standard” plant in Hammond, Indiana. 1943-44.
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seems the only one not wearing glasses is the guy with the torch.
That's not a torch it is a pint gun in the spray booth
One would think that of all there he would need a mask/ppe with such a small booth. guy on left must be subjected to the fumes etc.
That appears to be a war time photo. Rather than safety glasses, I am guessing those glasses are just so they can see. My dad's vision was too bad to be in the military. That along, with being an experienced machinist kept him at home, building airplanes. Most of the men that age were either in the military or had some physical reason not to be.Quote:
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Just my guess..
Coal miners riding to work. 1900s.
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poor buggers look like squished sardines. No O.H.&S for those guys 7 lucky to live a reasonable lifetime= no longevity. Some times we have come a very long way but none of them would have wanted to loose his job to a machine. Now we place so much more value on life in the wotkplace at least.
packed in like sheep going to slaughter
I wonder, did a labor-rate accountant design that coach?
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......well, it's only the first stop...it'll get so full, disembarking will be initiated with bars of soap.Quote:
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looks like she was born a coal miners daughter...
Operative term "a". Now, if she could identify which, cuz they all look alike...Quote:
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French quarry. 1930s.
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Coopers making casks for whale oil. New Bedford Wharves, late 1800s.
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The offices of the Central Social Institution of Prague, Czechoslovakia with the largest vertical letter file in the world. Consisting of cabinets arranged from floor to ceiling tiers covering over 4000 square feet containing over 3000 drawers 10 feet long. It has electric operated elevator desks which rise, fall and move left or right at the push of a button. to stop just before drawer desired. The drawers also open and close electronically. Thus work which formerly taxed 400 workers is now done by 20 with a minimum of effort.
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"Consisting of cabinets arranged from floor to ceiling tiers covering over 4000 square feet containing over 3000 drawers 10 feet long."
And to think, all that would probably fit on a single 64 gigabyte flash drive you could carry in your shirt pocket.
mklotz, the Europeans have LONG been using "Vertical Space" to meet their Needs, I was in Germany in 1971, and visited a Jewelers Supply Store. Think Diamonds, Emeralds, Saphires, Rubies, etc.
From the BASEBOARD to approx 6 feet, drawers, 1 inch tall 8-10 inches wide maybe 18 inches in length . . . . On a wall 15 - 20 FEET Long.
Request your needed Gem and they would walk to an UNMARKED DRAWER, and bring you your specified Gem in several sizes, and maybe Cut Shapes as well.
My Friend (a German Citizen) ran the Language Barrior for me, Not that they did not speak ENGLISH, but out of Respect for their trade. We Spent $500.00 (combined) and they treated us like we were Old Time Customers, Tea & Biscuits don't you know!
BTW, to Enter that room we were buzzed in after Video/Voice reply to their "door Bell", 12 foot hall Video Monitors both ends! Double Electro-Mechanical Latches both doors. Foyer with Door Bell. ground floor. First their elevator opens, enter and (of Course a Video Monitor) we are taken to the Second floor where the Hall way had a small meeting room thenthose DOORS!
All in All, a very exciting memory, and an Understanding of German Enginneering.
philip, from the Great Pacific NorthWET, todays Weather a Light Washington Mist, It HIT Oregon & Missed Washington.
You're right on the money, Marv! Using the standard that 1 page of text ~ 1kilobyte, and 1800 pages/lineal foot from here https://www.ilmcorp.com/tools-and-re...ges-or-images/ it comes out to ~54Gb.
Heck you would have room left over for a decent photo or music library! :-)
Hi Marv, your comment on tech changes made me think of the Brisbane City computer room which was about the same size. The small Dec 10 mainframe was used for file movements within the staffing area (about 15,000) during the 70's & 80's.Quote:
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I would deliver the software cards for the readers of the proper mainframe housed in a giant room with its own back up aircon to manage the proper temp & it was in a fully sealed room that had a 7 second warnibg to staff if it was about to inject poisonous gasses to protect the mainframe from possoble fire. I would see reels spinning everywhere. card readers were clicking away but not heard through the bullit proof glass unless one was invited into the room. Although it was the third biggest municipality in the world at the time & way smaller than our state & federal govts, it had the biggest computer in the southern hemi. About 300000 rate payers, stores, libraries, water supply , electricity generation until 1976, works, parks etc etc etc.
All that could be done on a much small piece of kit now, but I am privaliged to have been one of a few who were allowed onto the floor let alone into "the room".
The mind boggles re NASA etc
So what years was this wall used?
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The manager looks chuffed while others look somewhat glad to have a break for the pose.
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The Reel Cove Coal Mine near Whitwell showing the workers' train. Marion County, Tennessee. 1952.
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More sardines or Sheep as Frank would say.
Cool train , looks like a kids one in a theme park but dustier, deadlier, & more riveting.
Yep the smaller more compact those transport conveyances could be made the stronger and believably more survivable in the event of a cave in.
Notice all of them seem to be smiling, I would presume this may be because they have survived another work shift.
Doukhobor women pulling a plow on the Canadian prairies.
I still don't understand the whole people-doing-animal-work thing. Is it just a weird anomaly? A normal step that developing societies go through? Weird response to famine or war or recent disasters of some sort? Like did the plow animals die of a disease a month ago, and the people need to pick up the yoke until more animals can be purchased after next harvest? Or, is this a plow intentionally made for use by people? Does this happen anywhere today? I don't get it.
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Jon this may give some insight to the why of the women pulling plows. Fore warning a bit of a read
The Doukhobors' Place in Canadian History
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The largest group—the Community Doukhobors—continued to be loyal to their spiritual leader Peter V. Verigin
Verigin convinced his followers to free their "brethren" (animals) and pull their wagons and plows themselves.
More proof that religious fundamentalism can short circuit neural pathways.
Female welder they are beautiful!
Wow, that is quite a read. Doukhobors looked like a combination of sect, cult, ultra radical communists, and terrorists over the years. Verigin (and his kid) really were pieces of work. Verigin essentially broke them of the "dominion of man over animals" concept, which is fairly uniform across Judeo-Christianity; that's actually impressive! Historically, I think it's been easier to convince people to give their lives for an unjust cause that it is to convince them to unhook a healthy plow animal, let it walk away, and then pull the plow themselves.Quote:
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And look at this other pic. All women pulling too. The one job that's not intended for an animal is handled by the guy at the back.
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Men went to work on the railroads! Here's a snippet from the original text that the wiki article is referencing: https://books.google.com/books?id=Qb...ilroad&f=false. The book glosses over the insane cult bit, and just casts this as a nostalgic and proud memory of "strong Doukhobor women". Seems like they're using a revisionist feminist angle to conceal the fact that these women were being victimized. Literally, they were being used as animals.
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Workers at the aluminium factory in Stongfjorden, Sweden, 1908.
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My dad had a very rough life, the same I am sure as MANY kids and people in general. The family had no means to own or even feed an animal. I heard stories about him pulling the plow for their garden. I have also seen men in the Caribbean pulling carts, etc, like you would expect a horse or tractor to pull.Quote:
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Shepherds on stilts; from a marshy region in Landes, France.
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I would think those thin stilts would be sinking into the marsh mud. French marshes must be different that the marshes we have around here.
