#2 Machine Shop
#2 Machine Shop, at 1/3 of a mile long, was one of the largest machine shops in the world. Empty as it is now, it has the grandure of an abandoned cathedral, and the quiet and stillness is only broken...
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Clothes baskets, rather than lockers, were used in some of the shower rooms for hanging and containing the workers clothes and personal items while they were on shift, and while showering after their...
View ArticleLocker Room, Bethlehem Steel
Locker room, the personal spaces at Bethlehem such as the locker room are few and far between, and they are always in strange places, next to a welding room, or tucked behind the parts room. It is an...
View Articlepiping, blast furnace
There is a complex wrapping of piping around the blast furnaces, adding air and directing cooling water in the complex workings involved with smelting iron.
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Handles used for raising and lowering the skimmers that divert slag to the slag pots when the blast furnace is tapped. For a full read on how a blast furnace works <a...
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One of my favorite shots from the Bethlehem Steel series, you can see the <a href=\”http://www.oboylephoto.com/steel\”>entire essay here. </a>
View ArticleBlast Furnace Gas
I will be making a return to Behtlehem Steel and will have some new photographs posted within a week or so. <a href=\”http://www.oboylephoto.com/steel\”>Bethlehem steel photographs here.</a>
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