[TheForge] Re: forging steel bamboo

[craig.schaefer at verizon.net]

Exactly.   I imagine their real aversion to photography comes from the handling of nukes and such there.  Even that would probably be pretty visible from satellite.


>From: Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca>
>Date: 2007/10/29 Mon PM 05:09:47 CDT
>To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [TheForge] Re: forging steel bamboo

>
>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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