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It's amazing that someone still lives here and doesn't have the decency to buy a broom to sweep the place out? This is Switzerland, correct?

You just don't see little treasures like this being build any more. It's a shame really, all the little details that are no longer put into buildings. Everyone lives/works in a box, that pretty much looks like everyone else's little box. I think that is why I keep coming back. In hopes of seeing just one more little treasure like this! Thank you!

Choir gowns. Wore them all through high school. Heavy, hot and not at all like the cheap flimsy gowns we had at graduation. The top one looks about the same dull dark blue we had too!

Bit of a change from the usual "lone chair" picture. ^_^

I was thinking I needed sunglasses to look at some of these photos with the colors so bright and vibrant!

I remember desks like that ...

Like others have said, it's for rotating the flywheel manually.

Large steam engines start best from a specific position, so before starting they would need to rotate the flywheel into a specific spot. Chances are there was (or is) a mark somewhere on the flywheel to indicate to the operator where to rotate it too.

It's really cool in the Clint Eastwood movie "Tightrope" up on the top level where just the dome peeks through the floor it or one of the copper kettles had a neon Dixie sign next to it in the movie. I'm watching it now.

The pellets are for burning to make heat. This is a modernity invented in the 70-80's to make wood stoves more efficient to save wood. They can be used anywhere you burn wood.

Any word on Shawna wood yet???

wanderer: Look through the trees to the right, wanderer -
think that IS Sparrows Point - around your Home Area, right?
Best Wishes for success trip to London UK, winner also;
Millbrook in abeyance until futher events, maybe??
NYC is my dream & love forever = fact.

Homer Research was located on what is now Lehigh University's Mountaintop Campus. They had scaled down furnaces and a rolling mill up there!

Thank you for allowing me to revisit these places. What a pity so much more of this plant was lost forever. The Basic Oxygen Furnaces were state-of-the-art in their day, and are long gone. While visiting Vienna four years ago, I saw one in their Technical Museum. It was quite thrilling to see!

I remember walking through this building while the plant was still in operation. It was beautiful! So many shiny brass fittings, huge flywheels and linkages, ceramic tiles, and on such a grand scale! It's rather sad to see these places in a state of decay.

Videos are great to watch. Thank you!