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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.
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  • @brucebrunner3268
    @brucebrunner3268 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Could our young people putting in a hard days work like this without a cellphone in their hand!😅😅😅😅😅

  • @terrylembke8100
    @terrylembke8100 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    No woke crap there .

  • @Runpulator
    @Runpulator 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    And you think Trump will bring us back to the 1950's and we'll get all this back with Oligarchs running the country? 🤣🤣

  • @johnverney
    @johnverney 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    We had a 148" mill in Hamilton, Ontario

  • @Knight_of_NI
    @Knight_of_NI 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What America was like before we sent all the jobs overseas and started buying everything from China 😳🤦🏻‍♂️😳

  • @norman6771
    @norman6771 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Yeah, I grew up in the wrong time

  • @andrewmadeup7375
    @andrewmadeup7375 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @HighTonnage
    @HighTonnage 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @apacherider7110
    @apacherider7110 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @Celler2
    @Celler2 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    And on the weekends they take their sons to the ball game.

  • @Celler2
    @Celler2 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @mikeadler434
    @mikeadler434 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    👍👍

  • @gazmmm
    @gazmmm 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    America at its peak strength

  • @Handles_are_good_for_holding
    @Handles_are_good_for_holding 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Lukens is about an hour drive from me. My grand pop knew many of the workers there from his high school.

  • @forddon
    @forddon 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What kinda steelworker gets up at 7 AM?

  • @ghoster3078
    @ghoster3078 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    And you think Trump will bring all this back?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Runpulator
      @Runpulator 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Not a chance. He ran to avoid prison.

  • @scottyelder8351
    @scottyelder8351 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Eh ? 🤔 Where is Dyreasie and Como ? What about Habibibib ? Ah the good old days lads 😊

  • @Malphazar
    @Malphazar 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ah the 50s before PPE was a thing

  • @CS_247
    @CS_247 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ahh, the days when PPE was a tie and a pipe... And the steel was exceptional quality, no chinesium in sight.

  • @twrea1118
    @twrea1118 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Now we manufacture genders

  • @OKFrax-ys2op
    @OKFrax-ys2op 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @OKFrax-ys2op
    @OKFrax-ys2op 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Life before, “The Rust Belt” and now how many hood’s?

  • @markp8277
    @markp8277 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My father would take the overnight train from welland ontario representing atlas steels to coatsville in the early fifties !

  • @siriustraveler7083
    @siriustraveler7083 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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 😢)

  • @inspectormills3290
    @inspectormills3290 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nostalgic to be sure, but ultimately, other countries did it better with lower wages and more investment

  • @flyerbob124
    @flyerbob124 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My uncle lived in Marshallton and worked at Lukens Steel. Both are now long gone. Such a shame.

  • @jaynecobb6711
    @jaynecobb6711 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @BillJones-gv2io
    @BillJones-gv2io 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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

    • @rustyshackleford7082
      @rustyshackleford7082 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      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.

  • @BillJones-gv2io
    @BillJones-gv2io 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    We are still great just not as!!!

  • @BillJones-gv2io
    @BillJones-gv2io 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is before corporate greed and selfishness was a real thing,and before China learned about smelting

    • @jaynecobb6711
      @jaynecobb6711 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      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.

    • @flamingfrancis
      @flamingfrancis 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      China was smelting metals long before the USA was discovered.

  • @jackuzi8252
    @jackuzi8252 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @cutl00senc
    @cutl00senc 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    America…before corporations took over

  • @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025
    @theoriginalchefboyoboy6025 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @oldowl33
    @oldowl33 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Another scene of a dead and long gone world. Thank government for reducing America to a third world wage slave colony.

  • @thebaldhippie
    @thebaldhippie 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @davidgentz1731
    @davidgentz1731 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think it's hilarious that those guys would show up to work in a factory with a suit and tie and a hat

  • @oakpuncherlast2672
    @oakpuncherlast2672 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Betrayed by politicians and corporations

  • @TheCowboylogic
    @TheCowboylogic 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @markwilhelm168
    @markwilhelm168 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @jimgallagher3185
    @jimgallagher3185 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My first job out of college was Phoenix Steel. Loved the steel business. Lukens was my competition.

  • @djsandvig1
    @djsandvig1 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Back when hard work and honesty was the norm. And America made EVERYTHING!!

    • @TheCowboylogic
      @TheCowboylogic 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Now we can't even make anything. We have become a beggar nation.

    • @HappyHarryHardon
      @HappyHarryHardon 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Back when you never had to eat or poop along side a black person. Ah the good ol’days

    • @andrewmadeup7375
      @andrewmadeup7375 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      England taught the world how to make everything.

    • @johnverney
      @johnverney 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@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.

    • @TheCowboylogic
      @TheCowboylogic 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@johnverney Yeah. Made in China. With Chinesium......

  • @jimevans9550
    @jimevans9550 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Shows how Trump and his profiteering friends have ruined the country.

  • @thomasburke7995
    @thomasburke7995 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    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.

  • @Makeitliquidfast
    @Makeitliquidfast 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Even then the evil Democrats and their criminals in government were corrupt as hell and now look where we're at.

  • @jackklein8507
    @jackklein8507 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love that they were doing the bottom pouring of ingots in the 50s

  • @Phantomthecat
    @Phantomthecat 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Getting up at 7am ! - living the dream!

  • @kevinlachapelle4563
    @kevinlachapelle4563 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those were the days.😢

  • @AlaskanInsights
    @AlaskanInsights หลายเดือนก่อน

    I used to run a 30,000 ton press. it would squish anythimg.

  • @houseofsolomon2440
    @houseofsolomon2440 หลายเดือนก่อน

    12:05 yard boss in vest & neck tie. Different times~

  • @russmiller3745
    @russmiller3745 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Walks to work? What kind of madness is this? It’s raining men!