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.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Assembly of Generators, Siemens-Schuckertwerke, c. 1914
Can you imagine what it took to wrap those coils by hand!
ReplyDeleteDon't see too many pictures from that era of such spotless manufacturing. The well-earned regard for products from that region once upon a time.
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Deletethey're about forty feet long and weigh around seventy tons now
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