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>
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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 href=\”http://www.steel.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=How_Steel_is_Made&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=12305\”>check this link. </a>
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03/14/2006
piping, 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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03/12/2006
Locker 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 industrial environment which didn\’t seem to bend to accomodate many comforts.
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03/11/2006
Wash Room, Bethlehem
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 shift. They would load them up and pull on the cable to raise them to the ceiling out of the way.
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02/28/2006
#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 by the sounds of the wind blowing through this vast room.
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