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.
comparing the size to the 40,000 pound flywheel in a Cooper Bessemer horizontal engine, I would venture 50,000 pounds.
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a bull wheel. I wonder if it was set up with a leather drive belt, as many of the steam-driven mills were (it looks like it is).
ReplyDeleteHere is a collection of photos from the Mesta Machine Co in Pittsburgh from the 1900s to 1920s. Mesta made lots of BIG stuff.
ReplyDeletehttps://historicpittsburgh.org/collection/mesta-machine-company-photographs