Karl Kae Knecht Cartoon
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Illustrations of the processes the Hercules Gas Engine Company goes through to manufacture their engines. Image Access WideTEK 25 The Hercules Gas Engine Co. The largest in the country making close to 40,000 a year old man Hercules both gasoline and kerosene No siree! I cant stop it without shutting off the gas - its too powerful War! Exhausts from test rooms. Youre the same old duffer who tries to break the Hercules buggies -arent you? Make 6 sizes After General Supt. V.E. McMullen tagged us - our old chum Ray McSherry Foundry Supt. took us through. Mac -remember how we played around the old foundries when we were kids in Freeport. Starting at the pig iron. They turn the world over. With the new Cupola that is being built 150 tons of molten metal will be used daily. Three stories up the best of pig iron - best stove plate scrap - charcoal and coke are mixed then melted. Below are shown the huge lipped - ladle- each holding one ton of molten metal move on overhead rails. Like sand and linseed oil are mixed molded and baked into cores. no more hand packing of sand - machine jolts up and down Core carrier going into ovens ovens at 500� the core is used the next day in molds same as patterns are The Foundry pour from 1 to 5 p.m. 3 electric cranes handle molds and pouring of large castings jolting rams sand all kinds of machines for cleaning and polishing cleaning cylinder An immense machine shop all castings and other parts trued up and made here Large assembling floors After the 176 parts are assembled into one engine, they go to the testing room - run for 12 hours or more hours, then painted and shipped |
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| Origin: | 2013 |
| Created By: |
Karl Kae Knecht |
| Source: |
http://digital.evpl.org/cdm/ref/collection/karlknecht/id/939 |
| Collection: |
Karl K. Knecht Collection |
| Copyright: |
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| Subjects: |
Education Company Sketches Labor Industry Evansville (Ind.) -- History -- Caricatures and cartoons United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Caricatures and cartoons Caricatures and cartoons -- United States |
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