1 min 2 sec

Taken from the sponsored film A Day at an Engineering Works (c1926)

Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG

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Please note: this clip is silent

Curator’s 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.

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