And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
That looks just a little larger than some that I saw coming out of an old gas facility, and they were supposed to have weighed either 14 or 17 tons (I forget which).
One of these monsters was set up about 3 miles from me, where they bought it from a Milwaukee, WI brewery (Pabst, I think). It was a steam engine used to power their ice plant. It still works, and they fire it up every year during the Sycamore Steam show.
The equatorial mount of the 200 inch Mount Palomar telescope weighs about a million pounds and is supported by a very thin film of high pressure oil. I was flabbergasted when I first found out in 1971, especially since it was constructed starting in 1938 and is still in use today! Yup, big wheel keep on turnin' w/o any bearings.
Likely in a rusted out factory in a rusted out city in a region where nobody is working now -- one of those progressive places.
ReplyDeleteThat looks just a little larger than some that I saw coming out of an old gas facility, and they were supposed to have weighed either 14 or 17 tons (I forget which).
ReplyDeleteOne of these monsters was set up about 3 miles from me, where they bought it from a Milwaukee, WI brewery (Pabst, I think). It was a steam engine used to power their ice plant. It still works, and they fire it up every year during the Sycamore Steam show.
ReplyDeleteFascinating! I love old machinery. Our stuff is a bit more compact today!
ReplyDeleteFascinating! I love old machinery. Our stuff is a bit more compact today!
ReplyDeleteBig wheel keep on turnin'. Proud Mary keep on rollin'...
ReplyDeleteThe equatorial mount of the 200 inch Mount Palomar telescope weighs about a million pounds and is supported by a very thin film of high pressure oil. I was flabbergasted when I first found out in 1971, especially since it was constructed starting in 1938 and is still in use today! Yup, big wheel keep on turnin' w/o any bearings.
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Beautiful! I could watch that spin for hours!
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