Bethlehem Steel Company, Burns Harbor, Indiana. Four high finishing stand in the 110-inch sheared plate mill. The plate is rolled to desired length and thickness by being passed back and forth through the finishing stand rolls
This Geiger-Muller counter is mounted on a stand of Lucite acrylic resin. Described as the most sensitive instruments known to man, such counters measure the degree of radiation from radioactive substances. They were used widely in determining...
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A group of Berlin youngsters stand on top a bomb damaged building near Tempelhof Airport, July 9, to watch airlift operations. A U.S. Air Force C-54 skymaster flies overhead, having just deposited it's cargo of coal.
Who said the days of miracle cities in the US are over? Gary, steel town, started on wasteland in 1900, has grown to be a city of 110000 in 1929. This is the spot on which the heart of the city of Gary, Indiana now stands. In a contrast photo you...
Roughing stand of a plate mill built by Mesta Machine Company. The water sprays are to remove scale from the slab. The water sprays underneath the mill are at a pressure of approximately 1500 pounds per square inch
Armco Steel Corporation, Ashland, Kentucky, Five stand, four high tandem cold rolling finish mill for coils up to 62 inches wide and ranging in thicknesses from .014 through .10 inches