Coal sorting workers. 1942.
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Coal sorting workers. 1942.
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And the women of today find things to complain about, they don't know how lucky they are.
I suppose when they go home and do the washing in a tub with a scrubbing/washboard, their hands will be nice and clean again when they cook the dinner. I am glad we treat them better now.
One of those seven ladies could be your mother, grandmother or great grandmother. They were not afraid to work...
Ahh, that famous 'clean coal' everyone talks about, musta been them washing it all down!
In sorting coal they were keenly looking for non coal minerals like regular rocks secondly they could have been looking for lower grades of coal.
Had the folks of my family lived in coal bearing regions one of those ladies could have been my mother she would have been in just about the correct age bracket.
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Pin boys working in Subway Bowling Alleys, 65 South St., B'klyn, N.Y. every night. 3 smaller boys were kept out of the photo by Boss. April 1910.
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My dad used to do that when he was a kid. Told us about how the pins would often fly up and hit them as they stood there watching, waiting.
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Striping and painting the crosswalk on SE Hawthorne Boulevard and SE 49th Avenue looking east in Portland (OR), 1939.
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I saw these people when I was a kid in Washington State in my home town doing this with hand held sprayers, this must of caused bad backs after the streets were finished, but. back breaking work was the norm , even in the fifties and sixties!
I used to ten pin bowl back in the sixties with guys setting the pins.
Workers building the Berlin Wall.
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They sure dont look like happy workmen
Two guys working and three guys with guns...
I was looking at the blocks and had to question the authenticity of the photo as the blocks look like modern breeze blocks not the ones used in Germany during the war. Ii haven't researched when the wall went up 1050's i guess
but my research on blocks was fruitfull
The first hollow concrete block was designed in 1890 by Harmon S. Palmer in the United States. After 10 years of experimenting, Palmer patented the design in 1900. Palmer's blocks were 8 in (20.3 cm) by 10 in (25.4 cm) by 30 in (76.2 cm), and they were so heavy they had to be lifted into place with a small crane. By 1905, an estimated 1,500 companies were manufacturing concrete blocks in the United States.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/manufac...concrete-block
So yep blocks look genuine to me
oooh interesting
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a wall that separated the city of Berlin in Germany from 1961 to 1989. It separated the eastern half from the western half. Many people thought it was a symbol of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was taken down on November 9, 1989.[1][2] The Berlin Wall was about 168 km (104 miles) long.[3] It was built to prevent people from escaping from the eastern half of Berlin.
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I knew that Germany was divided up between the west and Russia our then allies just after the war and then at some point thereafter the boundary was marked but didnt know when.
Soviet building gang seeks work
looking for anything along the US Mexican border
will need papers
The Berlin Wall was about 168 km (104 miles) long.[3] It was built to prevent people from escaping from the eastern half of Berlin.
Despite imposing size, concertina wire, guards and weapons; not entirely successful at 'preventing' just curtailing. We Yanks aren't the only inventive culture, many persevered and managed escape.
Freedom may be the strongest magnet of all.
Even those with 'freedom' still desire individuality and freedom of choice. How about pirate stations XERB and Radio Caroline for example. Some are comfortable with what is fed to them; real freedom is more like a buffet.
This picture say's to me what the Socialist Left and Millinnials will have us be like today or the near future,just saying! I have read many books and watching many war videos about the German Jews in the middle Thirties and Fortes! I was a kid watching on TV in the Fifties about the Eastern German people didn't think it would happen to them by their own Government, and how their thinking proved them wrong! I'm not trying to be real Political here, but the hand writhing is there for us in the USA! My Opinion!
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Installing gas pipeline, Boston, 1890s.
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I am wondering if they are installing or taping into an existing line This is what it looks like to me.
From my perspective it appears that they dug a huge hole around the existing pipeline then shored up the hole with timbers and planking then laid a huge bridging timber over the pipe and supported it with the chains and rods as would be done in today's world by turnbuckles winches, excavators or a crane, Now that the pipe is supported they will probably clean it then install a saddle clamp with a nipple and Tee with a valve and piercing cutter connect the spur line to the branch of the tee the valve on the run then place the piercing cutter through the center of the open gate valve cut the hole in the pipe back the cutter out close the valve remove the cutter then cap the open side of the valve. More than likely there will be 2 valves one on the branch between the tee and the spur so that can be left closed until the rest of the spur line is completed.
I helped weld a 10" Tee to a 12" line one time. Only I wasn't told it was a hot tie on a live line until after we had finished welding the flange for the Tee to the line. Some of the insane things welders do in their lives.
Talking about the Berlin Wall:-
They were not forced labour workers. There were permanent workers, but they actually employed casual labour every day from both sides of the wall. Two oppos of mine whilst on annual leave from the Navy, were tripping around West Germany and actually worked on the wall for 3 days around 1964/65 to get some extra money. They were paid daily and the contractors were paying better money than the Navy at the time. No, they didn’t have Naval permission to step into an Eastern Block country, but the Navy never found out and they all lived happily ever after.
United States Postal Service workers showing off their motorized scooters. 1917.
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So, which is Dean Kamen's grandfather?
Yes Frank, your appraisal is more likely!
Ralph
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TM51,
Wow! That's a blast from the past...XERB, the Mighty 1090! I used to listen to the Wolfman from my suburban bedroom in Orinda Calif in 69-71...sorta like nearly meeting the outside world...and through my shortwave listening, on a Lafayette Radio 5 band receiver from a kit, $40!, I sent a QSL to Radio Havana Cuba, and promptly got on their mailing list for their 'Granma' newsprint propaganda sheet...complete with copious stories and BW photos of Che Guevara; my mum was a bit worried, but the CIA never came calling... Thanks for the memory, cheers
Jim in South Coast NSW Aus
1910s Navy airship and crew. Largest image size available.
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What are those tubes hanging down from the airship?
Surprisingly, this compilation...
https://bluejacket.com/usn_avi_lta.html
indicates that the the earliest classes of Navy dirigibles (A, B, C) were filled with hydrogen. It wasn't until C-7 that helium was used.
I suspect the smaller of the two tubes was used to spill the water ballast so the ship could rise. The other tube might be a gas vent for descending. Maybe that tube is a fill tube. In either case, why the strange angle?
I think that they are tubes to allow air in and out of the "ballonets" (interior balloons) to control the pressure in the airship:Quote:
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The ballonets within the airship also control the trim.
I do not see any rigging on the angled one there might be something on the smaller one.
pop corn tubes for in flight movie goers
According to the article provided by Denis G the tube being at the angle positioned near the prop was to force air into the ballonets the small tube would have been for venting said air.Quote:
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Kind of an interesting way of controlling altitude plus ascending and descending. Also it would be a delicate balance between slightly compressing the helium by reducing its free volume with the air in the ballonets the air would also become denser under a slightly higher pressure making it negatively buoyant
I wonder if it has to do with being directly behind the prop?
Ralph, I can see 2 wires on the upper leading edge of the angled tube, and on the "circumferential band" just back from the opening I can see wires running down to the stays running aft from the cockpit, plus there looks to be others also running from that band up to the hydrogen envelope.
Cheers Phil
Here's an "unclassified" manual for flying a K-Type airship if you ever find yourself in the pilot's seat:Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
https://www.faa.gov/regulations_poli...lot_manual.pdf
Page 22 describes the "Envelope Pressure Control System" and the functions of the fore and aft ballonets.
The previous section contains a detailed tally of the weight of the components in the airship including the machine gun and ammo.
(I don't think that I'd like the job manning the machine gun.)
You think the guy in the aft that cranks over the engine gets to man a machine gun...
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Ship fitters, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, circa 1943.
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Thanks Denis G now after reading the manual I feel certain that I am officially fully unqualified to pilot a US Navy air ship. But hopefully I would know enough of the basics not to get tossed out a port hole.Quote:
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While reading that it reminded me of an Indiana Jones movie
The lady in the center has the perfect tool for the job of freeing a sticky valve stem just tap on it a few times.Quote:
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If it hadn't been for the women during the wars there is no way the allied forces could have defeated the foes.
"Ship fitters, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, circa 1943. "
I was a child but I remember everyone having an attitude of working together for the common good.