[TheForge] Re: forging steel bamboo

[Mike Spencer]

CraigS wrote:

> ...an 'open house' at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard....cameras and
> cell phones were not allowed.

Ha! Yeah, like you might sneak some pics of ceentury-old naval
forge-shop tech to the Roosians or the Chinese.  I encountered a
similar paranoia when I worked as a millwright at Michelin.  First day
there was an intense lecture on not talking about the workplace with
outsiders because the tech was highly sophisticated and proprietary.

Once on the mill floor -- the wire mill for making the steel belting
and tringles -- I saw a lot of interesting rolling, drawing and
braiding equipment so I went and looked up the subject in my
Brittanica where I found pictures of the very same machinery. And it
was [drumroll] the 1910 Brittanica.  Ho hum. :-) Two of the machines
were, I'm pretty sure, the very same ones used to make braided boot
laces circa 1900.


- Mike

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