Patented in 1965 and produced by Specialized Mass Markets. User would insert token and use a rotary-phone-style dial to enter their token number. The machine would tally the numbers and indicate winners depending on the sum of said numbers. See USPTO US3455557.
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An old stoker in a power plant that was abandoned long before the mill next to it, by all indications. Sugar mills burned dry beet pulp pellets for fuel.
The mill is one of the tallest buildings in the city. It’s too bad that the cupola with its big skylights and flagpole were removed.
The office for the Government (Dominion) Elevator had a nice hat collection left over.
The powerhouse was notably older than the rest of the complex. I’m still not sure if it was build just for the cooperage, or whether it preceded it.
The first step of the filtering process is being spun through this tube.
The working end of the blast furnace, where molten metal would flow like lava out of the furnace… a process called ‘tapping’.
In a protected wing of a launcher are these empty server racks where guidance and control computers were stored.
Kate for scale. Powder that passed the floatation level was flowed over sluice tables, another mass-based way of separating gold. I’ve never seen so many of these in one place. Though it was a hardrock mine, it worked more like a placer mine.
Looking down range. You can tell where most of the rounds hit by the dark marks in the wall.