#steam era

[transport-methodology-101]

Historical progression of firefighting vehicles from the 1800s to modern times. https://technokontrol.com/history-of-fire-fighting-and-prevention-complete-timeline/

Bonus feature :- https://www.piercemfg.com/electric-fire-trucks/pierce-volterra

[last-fast-naturalist]

O. Winston Link

This guy and his work are some of the best America has ever created.

[bluerhinostudio]

Check out these beautiful mechanical clockwork birds and bent-metal stylized tree we created for the new  Kinzua Bridge State Park visitor center in Pennsylvania! The panel at the base of the tree plays bird calls when you press the buttons...

[bluerhinostudio]

A unique part of our Kinzua Bridge Visitor Center exhibits, this console with three sets of animated mechanical flipbooks showing how the massive bridge was erected, later converted to steel, then ultimately destroyed by a tornado--the incredible wreckage is still visible in the park!

[bluerhinostudio]

A  bronze bridge-worker figure hangs perilously from the imitation steel bridge truss in the entryway of Kinzua Bridge State Park Visitor Center...while our own Jeff Nelson hangs comfortably in the hammock below during a break at the installation.

[bluerhinostudio]

Last year we finished installation at the new Kinzua Bridge State Park visitor center in Pennsylvania! The two-story steam-era inspired exhibit explains the region’s unique history, nature, and legends surrounding one of the largest man-made steel structures of it’s time!

[chupadave]

[ferret-dartboard-and-arrow-blog]

Sometime in 1960, an A3 leads the down “Thames-Clyde Express” over the picturesque Settle and Carlisle.