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Airtight Chamber at Duquesne Works

1956-05-09

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Airtight Chamber at Duquesne Works
  • Title
  • Airtight Chamber at Duquesne Works
  • Creator
  • Associated Photographers
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B031.F04.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B031.F04.I02
  • Description
  • Description of the photograph reads, “PITTSBURGH, PA., May 9 – America’s first airtight chamber for vacuum casting of large forging ingots will go into operation soon at U. S. Steel’s Duquesne Works. Fabricated and designed at the Ambridge, Pa., plant of American Bridge, the chamber is 17 feet in diameter and 31 feet high including the base and top sections. Supported by heavy steel members the chamber will be permitted to move about when in operation. Here American Bridge workmen make test assembly of the chamber before shipment.”
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • United States Steel Corporation.Duquesne Works.
    American Bridge Company (Ambridge, Pa.)
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Duquesne.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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