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A Day at an Engineering Works (c.1926)

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Chimney

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Clip description

Large steel plates are rolled through a machine to make a chimney that will stand at 150 feet high and be over eight feet in diameter. A cylinder shape begins to form.

A hydraulic machine rivets pipes into the finished cylinder.