905 Comments for Bethlehem Steel Mill

To me that means COOL STUFF INSIDE!!!

The movie Alien comes to my thought at first glance

Looks either very hot, or very cold.

Through the pictures on this site I wonder sometimes about the evolution of the human race. Stones were once microchips

Making steel, one of mans oldest arts. Beautyful photo.

The mother of all pipe organs

If that were a pipe organ I bet you could hear it quite aways away.

Picture should have been called Mambo.

great shadows, was a flash light used?

Well, Since they didn't specify who's authorization... XD

Ah, I knew it was some division of the company on the hill, thanks!

That video of those engines working is pretty cool, they look like they only ran somewhere between 60-100 RPM from the speed of the flywheels in the video. That's not a very fast running engine. You can also tell it was insanely noisy, too.

If would be interesting to know how many rpm's these engines ran at....

Thanks for the info, Tina and Claudia. I've been a cook for many years, but never worked with a tilt kettle personally. I've seen them, tho. I think they're fascinating. Yeah, I'm kind of a dork for kitchen equipment.

I actually grew up near here. My Grandfather worked at "the steel" and so did my dad. The corporate HQ were not located where Lehigh University is, but they did have a research lab at the top of this hill, and this is now part of Lehigh. Great photos..it still amazes me that something that was so vibant when I was a little kid could just vanish.