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Diesel Engine Cylinder Hardness Demonstration

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: An employee using a file to demonstrate the hardness of a diesel engine cylinder at Milwaukee Works (factory). Photograph taken by Don Jones.
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Testing Diesel Pump with Pressure

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: Factory worker tests a diesel engine pump under 6000 pounds of pressure at Milwaukee Works. Photograph taken by Don Jones.
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Testing Diesel Engine Cylinder Hardness

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: Factory worker tests the file-hardness of a diesel engine cylinder at Milwaukee Works. Photograph taken by Don Jones.
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Internal Grinding of Tractor Roller Shell

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: Factory worker operates a machine that grinds the inside of a TracTractor (crawler tractor) track roller shell at Milwaukee Works. Photograph taken by Don ...
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Electrical Recording of Diesel Engine Horsepower

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: A factory worker electrically records the horsepower of Diesel engines at Milwaukee Works. According to the original caption, each engine was tested in thi...
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Man Welding

Date: 12 07 1955
Description: A worker welds together sections of a press slide that was later purchased by Federal Engineering and used by the automotive industry.
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Seated Man Welding a Sugar Mill Drive

Date: 06 1957
Description: A seated man welds a sugar mill drive that was later purchased by E.L. Dennis Engineering Company of New Orleans, Louisiana and used by A. Wilbert's Sons M...
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Propulsion Gears

Date: 01 10 1958
Description: Large propulsion gear that was later purchased by Bethlehem Steel Company and used by Hitachi Limited of Tokyo, Japan, as a replacement gear in the ship "S...
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H.S. Grigate Gear

Date: 04 30 1958
Description: A male employee inspects a H.S. Grigate Gear. This gear, a marine propulsion drive, was later used by the United States Navy.
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Transporting a Shipping Shield

Date: 10 08 1958
Description: Two male employees help transport a shipping shield. This shield was purchased by Stearns-Roger Company and used by Westinghouse. Original Falk caption rea...
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Single Helical Hub Gears

Date: 06 07 1963
Description: Single helical hub gear that was a component of an oxygen furnace drive. This gear was purchased by Morgan Engineering Company and used by Pittsburgh Steel...
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Employee at Test Stand

Date: 07 29 1966
Description: Ron Kudlewski, a Falk employee, attends to the test stand for large motors in the High Speed Department. This motor was later purchased and used by the Lou...
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Spacer Coupling

Date: 08 30 1965
Description: Man standing near spacer coupling that Chicago Bridge and Iron-East Chicago Industry later purchased and Inland Steel later used. Falk caption reads, "3340...
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Secondary TCD Drives

Date: 05 1965
Description: Secondary TCD drive that was purchased by U.S. Steel (Allegheny Project) and used by Gary Steel Works. The male employee in the photograph is Jim Kolbeck.
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S.S. Santa Cruz Propeller

Date: 07 18 1966
Description: Propeller of the S.S. Santa Cruz. Falk caption reads, "Photos taken for reference in study of propeller reversing characteristics for SUN Marine red...
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Eighteen Foot Split Ring Gear

Date: 09 15 1966
Description: Eighteen foot split ring gear that is on display at the Falk Corporation. Falk caption reads, "Photos of ring gear to be displayed at Association of Iron a...
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Mill Drive

Date: 10 28 1966
Description: Mill drive that was later purchased by Traylor Engineering and used by Hudson Cement. Original Falk caption reads, "See engineering files for exact descrip...
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Man Standing in Gear Couplings

Date: 12 30 1966
Description: The 220 G20 gear coupling pictured was later purchased by L.W. Nash Company. Falk caption reads, "220 G20 Gear Coupling per assembly, Drawing number 418288...
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Double Reduction-Reverse Gear

Date: 08 29 1967
Description: View from above of double reduction-reverse gear that is a component of a gas turbine drive. This gear was purchased by Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Compa...
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Support Propeller Shaft

Date: 08 15 1967
Description: A roll on/roll off freighter is shown and was later purchased by Sun Shipbuilding. Falk caption reads, "Half strut for 646 single screw-roll on/roll off fr...

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