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What is the timer for?
Chemical laboratory workers. Brunner Mond & Co. Ltd. Manchester, England. 1918.
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They are so wistful; I imagine them pondering what lab work would be like without glassware?
Is the one in white on her cell phone? Everyone wants to hear what is being said.
Ralph
They just asked her how to make a Rosewater Rickey...
I'm pretty sure you need a chemist to make a Rosewater Rickey...
" so do we saute the onions or caramelize them? or just reduce them?" hold on Im reading!!! "cooking class for the clueless."
Sorry for interrupting all the fun here:
This lab wasn't all-female just for being exceptionally progressive, offering "equal opportunities for ladies" -
there was a big, bloody war going on right then.
"WWI Brunner Mond modified several of their plants in order to produce ammonium nitrate for munitions.
As well as purifying TNT for government use, the firm provided synthetic phenol for conversion to the alternative explosive, picric acid."
From: https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Brunner,_Mond_and_Co
no reason to be sorry. were always up for some real info. if this was a modern photo my comment would be about right.
Oh what fun! Not a place I'd like to work!
(Once upon a time, long ago I was helping to clear out and clean up a long-time toxicology professor's lab a few years after he'd retired, and in one of the chemical cabinets we came across a large glass jar of picric acid that over the years had picked up moisture and recrystallized all over the inside of the jar and up around the lid.
We evacuated the building and called in the bomb squad for that one! There was probably 1-1.5 kilos of it in the jar. )
By timer, I believe you refer to the clock looking device high up the mast. That's a range to target signal, aka shot clock or concentration dial, aiding other ships in formation. By observing and comparison, elevation could be regulated somewhat better. Each ship made own corrections for direction, wind and surface speed. More at https://hoover.blogs.archives.gov/20...-like-a-clock/
Disappointed same phrase didn't appear in wikipedia
Hello bruce.desertrat, They certainly would've been Very Serious & Brain Squirming Times Indeed,not like looking @ your smartphone to see if the battery was getting low or if you had a message from Shakespeare. Tell us what could have happenned with that jar of "PICRIC ACID" if things went Pear shaped? Those pictures maybe tell more than a Thousand words.Makes me laugh when I compare the different times and what people "HAD" to go thru with not much choice! Will the pendulum swing the other way,one day?This website is The Best Value ever!
Pennsylvania Rubber Company workers. Jeanette, Pennsylvania. 1947.
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Those rollers look pretty dangerous without safety devices to keep hands out.
I believe that is how certain compounds are mixed, a similar but larger machine was in our plant. Not unlike kneading bread dough. Rolls were heated, a little spray of water kept it from sticking. I suppose the rollers could be considered a hazard, but they turn slowly.
Ultimately, the real hazard; inattentive operators.
oh I see...so there not making condoms....:headscratch:
Sleeves rolled up, good. Neck tie, good for the boss...
Thinking that's a research or QC lab based on the scale on the bench, guys better not get those ties anywhere near those rollers! Reminds me a lot of the QC lab I used to work in, the windows looked out onto the production floor.
We are writing a song!
It goes like this; aminobiphenyl, hexachlorobenzene, dimethyl sulfate, chloromethyl methylether, tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin, carbon disulfide, dibromochloropane, cholorinated benzenes, nitropropane, pentrochlorophenol, benzotricholoride, strontium chromate, dibromo, chloropropane, aminobiphenyl, hexachlorobenzene.....
They had it finished by 1989.
Really!
Well those Rollers would have to turn Inwards where they would'nt Question what Went in there.I can't see any Warning Signs or Emergency Shutdown Buttons "ESDs" If you had an operator who got a bit Scatterbrained especially after a "Broken Hearted Love Affair" Yuck!!! Tere would have been some Nasty Incidents "Safety Is Number One !
We used to have a Ball Band factory here (in Mishawaka, IN). My mom used to go down to their Wholesale" shop and get all 4 of us boys Red Ball Jets, high top tennis shoes. They sold the "defective" shoes there for next to nothing.
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Later it became Uniroyal and they made all kinds of very stinky rubber products like car floor mats, shoe soles, tire compounds etc. In 2000 it was imploded as the start of a beautification project to include a new, modern park, small shops and a now brewery in honor of both Ball Band and the old Camm Shellinger brewery just West of the factory. I know what a lot of the workers from Ball Band did on break!
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If you stand in just the right place at this memorial, it places the sculpture of the factory exactly where it stood before it's demolition. It's actually a pretty cool idea!. Uniroyal expanded the factory to the other side of the main street bridge. (seen on left side of the memorial). Of course, they were also singled out as the largest polluter of the St Joe river! Couldn't eat fish out of there for 20 years! now you can pull 30 lb steelhead out of there thanks to installation of fish ladders and a newer hatchery up river.
I think they helped Tom out with it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPq3SEteEJc
Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory workers. Cleveland, Ohio. June, 1944.
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A memorial plaque is appropriate; for a place that housed and fed so many people.
There remains the front wall of Uniroyal in Los Angeles, a real piece of artwork. While motifs are mixed Assyrian, they portray Byzantine figures primarily, right along 5 (Santa Ana) Freeway, renamed The Citadel. Any drive that I've passed it, maybe 5 years old on, captivated me instant it came into view and turning completely around in my seat as it faded from view. Every time. If I was there right now, I'd still look as much as possible.
Truly immense, well over 1/4 mile long, it languished 20 years or more, when radial tires became prevalent, impractical to alter production lines suitably.
To me, best example of inanimate object that flat radiates countless positive emotions, beyond any other.
Not even Pyramids? Eiffel Tower? Washington Monument? Union Station? Golden Gate Bridge?
No.
It's reinforcing, whatever succession of property owners; immense building and related property, all the untold costs, saw fit to await a worthy owner with a plan to preserve that irreplaceable glory of a landmark.
Of 542,000 results, clearly a few clueless interpretations, but https://www.google.com/search?q=old+...client=gws-wiz
Update; just read that second groundbreaking, the reuse version, had a distinguished guest and implements.
Gretchen Schleicher Davis of Pasadena, CA, the eldest daughter of Adolph Schleicher, wielded the same silver shovel and pick that she used at the groundbreaking 61 years ago, nearly to the day, when the original Samson Tire and Rubber Company plant broke ground, 1929.
Elsewhere, right now morons are destroying significant artifacts. . .
Loggers in Tulare County, California. 1892.
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Looks as if they were removing cants from the inside out. In those days it was all hand work!
They could, certainly cant anymore...
I have some old relatives that did this stuff back then in cali....one was a lumber jack champion.I could possibly be related to one of these guys. but I kant tell for sure. Im am for sure awesome at making sawdust so it must run in the family.
And they Did it wearing "Their Sunday Best"or normal Civilian clothes.Not a Hi-Vis Jacket in sight! Only the Bear came for a Free Handout @ Smoko!
Was that a hollow tree or did they hollow it out?
Ralph
I'd love to see the process by which they split those members from the trunk. Judging by the man standing on the left, the section they're working on is at least 12' tall and 16' in diameter... at minimum. It's kinda funny to think of these men as vegetable harvesters, and that homes are made largely of vegetables. And, yes, trees are vegetables, at least from the perspective of termites, wood beetles, woodlice and fungus... and humans. :D
The picture was taken to celebrate the bear being shot. I wonder how high they are off the ground?
Ralph
I was thinking Euell always said they have the taste of wild hickory nuts. But I do also recall him talking about pine trees. I have eaten a lot of boxes of them over the years. I tend to stock up on them now, since they are often sold out at the grocery stores in recent months!!