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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 1 ธ.ค. 2013
World's Largest Plate Mill-Lukens
The Lukens Steel Company was one of the top three producers of steel plates in the nation. Lukens operated continuously at its Coatesville Pennsylvania site since 1810. It was controlled by members of the Pennock, Lukens and Huston families in direct succession for over 180 years; the company is noted for being the first industrial company in the United States led by a woman, Rebecca Lukens (1794-1854).
Note: This video contains archived public domain / licensed footage. This footage serves documentary purposes on world history and is to be viewed as educational.
Note: This video contains archived public domain / licensed footage. This footage serves documentary purposes on world history and is to be viewed as educational.
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Could our young people putting in a hard days work like this without a cellphone in their hand!😅😅😅😅😅
No woke crap there .
And you think Trump will bring us back to the 1950's and we'll get all this back with Oligarchs running the country? 🤣🤣
We had a 148" mill in Hamilton, Ontario
What America was like before we sent all the jobs overseas and started buying everything from China 😳🤦🏻♂️😳
Yeah, I grew up in the wrong time
The hidden genius behind all factorys are the designers that drawn the plans for the machines, tools, factories etc. Without the clearver designers drawing this stuff non of this would have happened.
You can follow along with these guys on their walk to work in Google Maps. Very interesting. Most of the homes and buildings in the film are still there. Third Street to Walnut, then to the plant. Quite a walk down memory lane from a lost time.
I feel sad about the decline of British engineering & manufacturing. We were the worlds workshop. We gave the world the industrial revolution. We invented most things like the locomotives and built railways across the world, the list goes on and on. For our American cousins, Charles Swan invented the tungsten light bulb before Thomas Edison. It was made commercial by Edison as he had more financial backing.
And on the weekends they take their sons to the ball game.
This explains so much in terms of why am seeing verity of quality of steel that appears to be ordinary but ones you bite into it with tools it is clear that not all steel is made equal and this video covers some reasons for the differences I am noticing.
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America at its peak strength
Lukens is about an hour drive from me. My grand pop knew many of the workers there from his high school.
What kinda steelworker gets up at 7 AM?
And you think Trump will bring all this back?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Not a chance. He ran to avoid prison.
Eh ? 🤔 Where is Dyreasie and Como ? What about Habibibib ? Ah the good old days lads 😊
Ah the 50s before PPE was a thing
Ahh, the days when PPE was a tie and a pipe... And the steel was exceptional quality, no chinesium in sight.
Now we manufacture genders
Well, loads of comments? How about the U.S. of A., manufactured 7O% of goods & 50% automobiles in 1950, for the entire world. My dad retired as a machine builder at General Electric, and never had to work at Walmart to make ends meet during his retirement.
Life before, “The Rust Belt” and now how many hood’s?
My father would take the overnight train from welland ontario representing atlas steels to coatsville in the early fifties !
When men only had one gender, took pride in the work and the product they made, when we were a Great Country ( now look what we have become 😢)
Nostalgic to be sure, but ultimately, other countries did it better with lower wages and more investment
My uncle lived in Marshallton and worked at Lukens Steel. Both are now long gone. Such a shame.
The comments below saying it is sad and terrible that those times are gone, dont have a frkn clue just how BRUTAL and DANGEROUS working in those conditions were. Geezus. It is just pathetic how clueless these people are. These are the same people that snivel, Make America Great Again. We want these times again. God, it is so pathetic.
I'm a union millwright 1102 proud have worked Nucor, Cleveland cliffs, inland,arcelormittal, Bethlehem work's Gary, Midwest,US steel,the rouge,in all phases of the mills from the ore yard to the coker the strip mill and it's the same every place safety is #1 over anything 25 yrs never been injured
Spent 45 years in the rubber and chemical/coatings industries and saw some horrendous injuries because safety was not followed. Safety rules are written in blood.
We are still great just not as!!!
This is before corporate greed and selfishness was a real thing,and before China learned about smelting
Geezus. Look into the Guilded Age, dummy. Here are a few names of those rapacious Captains of Industry, people like the Astors, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Mellon and the Vanderbilt's, just to name the cream of the crop. THOSE guys make modern billionaire's look like little school girls and rank amateurs. Those people killed and injured workers on a industrial scale to get their wealth.
China was smelting metals long before the USA was discovered.
I was familiar with Lukens because they had another plant in Conshohocken. They actually bought scrap steel from the public (which is how I ended up there). I didn't know that wasn't their main facility.
America…before corporations took over
With all the dramatic music playing, it's a shame they couldn't have used just one Wilhelm Scream, y'know, just to mess with us... I drive past this plant 5-6 times a day and I'm finally glad to be able to see what really goes on inside there. Huge respect for this dangerous work.
Another scene of a dead and long gone world. Thank government for reducing America to a third world wage slave colony.
Lukens was our major supplier for 30 years. Best quality and on-time delivery every order. It's a crying shame what has happened to our country.
I think it's hilarious that those guys would show up to work in a factory with a suit and tie and a hat
Betrayed by politicians and corporations
I am shocked it is still in business. Operating as Cleveland Cliffs. I am surprised they didn't tear it down and build a Walmart.
I spent a couple of week at this place replacing some electrical controls, for the rolling mill, back in the 90s. It was the biggest mill I was ever in. The control pulpit was 25' high, The bridge cranes were 400 ton and big enough to drive a car across. We took a 2 man elevator to the attic electrical room that was above the cranes. When we were done up there the elevator didn't work so we took the catwalk out the back of the room looking down at the bridge cranes moving below us.
My first job out of college was Phoenix Steel. Loved the steel business. Lukens was my competition.
Back when hard work and honesty was the norm. And America made EVERYTHING!!
Now we can't even make anything. We have become a beggar nation.
Back when you never had to eat or poop along side a black person. Ah the good ol’days
England taught the world how to make everything.
@@TheCowboylogic That's not true. The rest of the world has industrialized. Americans don't wanna pay $100 for something when somewhere else it's made for $30.
@@johnverney Yeah. Made in China. With Chinesium......
Shows how Trump and his profiteering friends have ruined the country.
Bullshit.
These jobs. Even with modernizeation , would be around today. This was filmed in the 1950's it took politicians. envirowackjobs and the unions to absolutely destroy the steel industries in the USA.
Even then the evil Democrats and their criminals in government were corrupt as hell and now look where we're at.
Love that they were doing the bottom pouring of ingots in the 50s
Getting up at 7am ! - living the dream!
Those were the days.😢
I used to run a 30,000 ton press. it would squish anythimg.
12:05 yard boss in vest & neck tie. Different times~
Walks to work? What kind of madness is this? It’s raining men!