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| Robert Gordon, Patrick Mahone, The Texture of Industry, Oxford Press 1994 |
In this photo foundry workers pose with a mine hoist sheave wheel they have just cast in a sand mold. The wheel would have been cast flat and has been stood up with the wooden jib crane on the left. It tuns out the foundry is the Knight foundry in Sutter Creek, California which amazingly is still operating, the last water-powered foundry and machine shop in America.
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