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Women Of Steel - Bethlehem Steel Oral History Project at the National Museum of Industrial History
Women contributed greatly to the success of Bethlehem Steel, the second largest steel producer in the nation for almost a century. In conjunction with our annual Steel Weekend event, these 19 remarkable women of Bethlehem Steel shared their experiences working in the plants, offices, and at research for our oral history project.
Their full interviews are preserved in our National Museum of Industrial History Bethlehem Steel Archives. Please note spelling of two participants should read, Phyllis Kostura and Theresa Simpson.
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Silicon Heartland: From Rust Belt to Tech Belt with Rebecca Fannin, Bruce Haines, and Lisa Getzler
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Rebecca Fannin is a journalist, a media entrepreneur and author of four books. Her latest one is, Silicon Heartland: From Rust Belt to Tech Belt. In researching for Silicon Heartland, Rebecca traveled 10,000 miles on a grass-roots reporting trip in her Honda Element to interview dozens of leaders - from mayors to founders to investors to business leaders and developers - at the forefront of thi...
America's First Female Industrialist, Rebecca Webb Lukens
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Catherine Quillman from the National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum shares the fascinating story of legendary entrepreneur, Rebecca Webb Lukens. Rebecca’s husband, Dr. Charles Lukens, died in 1825 (a year after her father died) and the next few years were a time when Rebecca, the nation’s “first industrialist,” attempted to guide the nearly bankrupted family business known as the Brandywine Iron ...
No Diamonds, No Minks, No Bridge for Me!: Life and Art of Milly Johnstone - Dr. Carol Shiner Wilson
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Carol Shiner Wilson, Ph.D., scholar and academic dean emerita, Muhlenberg College, examines the life and art of the remarkable Mildred Thomas Johnstone (1900-88), pioneering fiber artist, wife of Bethlehem Steel VP William H. Johnstone who vigorously resisted the Steel culture she married into, and member of multiple international artistic and intellectual circles. Shiner Wilson uses a variety ...
Augustus Wolle, Moravian Industry and the Origins of Bethlehem Steel with Toby Gardner
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The Enterprise of Augustus Wolle: Moravian Industry and the Origins of Bethlehem Steel Talk at the National Museum of Industrial History for Steel Weekend 2024. On July 26, 2024, Bethlehem's Moravian Church Settlements became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. However, to most outsiders, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania probably figures as an archetypal postindustrial 'rustbelt' city. This begs the question ...
Women of Bethlehem Steel
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Jeanne "Honi" Brugger and Dr. Jill Schennum discuss the Women of Bethlehem Steel. Presented by the Steelworkers Archives at the National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem PA on March 17, 2018.
Bethlehem Steel Rusting Relic
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After the Bethlehem Plant shut down, Steven M. Landis had rare, sanctioned access to photograph the derelict plant in the early 2000s. He captured incredible photography of many never-before-seen and likely never-to-be-seen-again perspectives. Steven's father, John K. Landis, subsequently became an Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites tour guide in 2019 and began showing his son's photographs t...
The History of Earth Day
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On April 22, 1970, twenty million Americans gathered across the country to demonstrate against the environmental and health impacts of over a century of industrial development. The movement inspired OSHA, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, Environmental Education Act, and a new way of thinking about living within our landscape. Fast forward 50 years: even though we seem to have made progre...
Introducing An Icon: The Development Of The Ford Mustang Debut At The 1964 New York Word’s Fair
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Jeff Bliemeister, Executive Director of America’s Transportation Experience at the AACA Museum, Inc at Hershey, discusses the fascinating history behind the Mustang’s development. The early 1960s were a time of economic prosperity and rapidly changing demographics in the United States. American families were evolving from single car to multi vehicle households at a staggering rate. Lee Iacocca,...
The Heroic Age Of Industry & Engineering - As Documented In Popular 3D Photography (1870-1920)
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At the turn of the 20th century, no middle-class parlor was complete without a stereoviewer. 3D stereo photographs documented everything everywhere and millions were sold annually. Among the myriad of topics explored were industry and engineering works. Many of these images were aesthetically appealing and historically illuminating. Dr. John Smith, Lehigh University History Professor Emeritus, ...
Stitching The Steel: Mildred Johnstone’s Bold Needlepoint Scenes Of Steelmaking
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Talk presented by Carol Shiner Wilson, Ph.D., scholar and academic dean emerita, Muhlenberg College, examining the life and art of Mildred Thomas Johnstone (1900-1988), fibre artist, wife of Bethlehem Steel VP William H. Johnstone, and member of multiple artistic and intellectual circles. Wilson uses a variety of primary and secondary sources, including private letters, interviews, designs for ...
As Goes Bethlehem - Author Talk with Dr. Jill Schennum.
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Dr. Jill A. Schennum, a professor of sociology and anthropology at County College of Morris talks about her new book, As Goes Bethlehem: Steelworkers and the Restructuring of an Industrial Working Class, at the National Museum of Industrial History on 2/17/24. Through the experiences and reflections of steelworkers, Jill A. Schennum demonstrates the significance of work, and particularly of ind...
Dark Matter: The Art of Anthracite
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Artist Andrea Krupp shares about her pop-up exhibit “Dark Matter: The Art of Anthracite Coal”, featured at NMIH during Anthracite Heritage Month, January 2024. Artist's Statement: Anthracite coal is a fascinating, sub-subterranean, deep-time material; a bridge between the geological past, where coal is more than a fuel. Displaced from the vein, its presence above ground is an opportunity to exp...
75 Years of Cable TV with SECTV
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Panel discussion moderated by Donna Acerra, Northampton Community College, with representatives from Service Electric Cable TV & Communications
Where Steelmaking Began - A Conversation with Coke Oven Employees | Steel Weekend 2023
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On March 28, 1998, the Coke Oven Division ceased operations, being the last of the Bethlehem Plant primary operations to close. Located on 160 acres, between Hellertown and Bethlehem, the Coke plant employed over 500 people at the height of production. Former Coke Oven employees gathered for a conversation and to share their experiences at Steel Weekend 2023 at the National Museum of Industrial...
Excavating Bethlehem Steel's History in Brazil with Dr. Cory Fischer Hoffman
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Excavating Bethlehem Steel's History in Brazil with Dr. Cory Fischer Hoffman
1876: The Inventor's Republic with Dr. John Smith
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1876: The Inventor's Republic with Dr. John Smith
Bethlehem Steel and the Lincoln Tunnel
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Bethlehem Steel and the Lincoln Tunnel
Number 5 Battery Stack Demolition
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Number 5 Battery Stack Demolition
A Proud History.... A Bright Future
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A Proud History.... A Bright Future
The History That Speaks For Itself
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The History That Speaks For Itself
Visit to the Gas Blowing Engines at the Bethlehem Plant
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Visit to the Gas Blowing Engines at the Bethlehem Plant
SHIPWAYS
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SHIPWAYS
Last 300 Ton Ingot Pour at the Bethlehem Plant
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Last 300 Ton Ingot Pour at the Bethlehem Plant
The President Pumping Engine with Mark Connar
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The President Pumping Engine with Mark Connar
Last Heat at the Steel Foundry in Steelton
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Last Heat at the Steel Foundry in Steelton
Above and Beyond
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Above and Beyond
The Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Anthracite Industry, 1852-1902.
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The Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Anthracite Industry, 1852-1902.
Bill McCarthy's Steam Woodworking Shop
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Bill McCarthy's Steam Woodworking Shop
Building Burns Harbor
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Building Burns Harbor

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  • @mackhopper
    @mackhopper 2 місяці тому

    Were those beautiful wooden walls salvaged? That wall paper in the lady’s room was amazing! I hope someone saved some of those incredible glass doors with that amazing period hardware, too!

  • @judithmatthews6766
    @judithmatthews6766 2 місяці тому

    Started my apprenticeship on Linotypes in 1973 in New Zealand. Changed to computers in 1977, but still did part time on Linos.

  • @cavecookie1
    @cavecookie1 3 місяці тому

    My grandpa went to Linotype school in the early 30s in Colorado. He was an old-school small town newspaper publisher, with a tiny, little weekly. His shop was full of amazing machines, but the Linotype was the best...wheels and gears and belts and cam, and MOLTEN LEAD!!! As a kid, I would just watch grandpa work, and he'd let us grandkids "help"; better than TV!

  • @rowmagnvs
    @rowmagnvs 3 місяці тому

    Amazing > In 1876, a German clock maker, Ottmar Mergenthaler, who had emigrated to the United States in 1872,[2] was approached by James O. Clephane and his associate Charles T. Moore, who sought a quicker way of publishing legal briefs.[3] By 1884, he conceived the idea of assembling metallic letter molds, called matrices, and casting molten metal into them, all within a single machine.[2]

  • @dawnkravagna3200
    @dawnkravagna3200 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for this demonstration. Cannot really understand how the machine worked from a textbook description.

  • @ToxiCom-777
    @ToxiCom-777 4 місяці тому

    It should be mentioned that ARTHUR FIRSTENBURG's book INVISIBLE RAINBOW directly correlates disease outbreaks with mass electrifications.

  • @gladysmartinez6676
    @gladysmartinez6676 4 місяці тому

    Oh wow ,I worked at Lehigh Valley Throwing Mills for 7 years , 7 to 3 and later I learned all the machines on al 3 floors and worked 2 shifts. Big boss was Dominick Pinella. wonderful co workers and managers.❤

  • @ryanwiese5280
    @ryanwiese5280 5 місяців тому

    These were built in my hometown.

  • @MrBarnardRoom12
    @MrBarnardRoom12 6 місяців тому

    You may like to know how the sole heir to the linotype machine fortune sacrificed himself during WWII and how he is immortalized in a tiny town in Luxembourg. ua-cam.com/video/i7Oi7qjPg3A/v-deo.html

  • @User0000000000000004
    @User0000000000000004 6 місяців тому

    my god. the music. please will this trend die already? it ruins so much content.

  • @SuPeRNinJaRed
    @SuPeRNinJaRed 7 місяців тому

    In case no one has mentioned it yet... ETAOIN SHRDLU WAS HERE

  • @chrisbarebo9108
    @chrisbarebo9108 7 місяців тому

    Great video with some cool industrial history that we were not aware of, thank you! We are the current owners of the Vera Cruz Silk Mill, and have owned & operated our 3rd generation family manufacturing business from there since 1980. We have tried to maintain the original footprint of the interior & exterior, as well as the “Shuler Barn” which was later added to the property. Thank you for posting/sharing the video.

  • @JohnnyFlynn-z7v
    @JohnnyFlynn-z7v 7 місяців тому

    Were lines re-used if they were headings or something that was the same each issue? Or was the whole page redone everyday regardless of any repetition?

  • @MelancoliaI
    @MelancoliaI 7 місяців тому

    The biggest leap forward in printing history since Gutenberg.

  • @gregturak7683
    @gregturak7683 8 місяців тому

    Fantastic video great photos

  • @LiemNguyen-qr6bq
    @LiemNguyen-qr6bq 8 місяців тому

    What about showing a Monotype Machine and keyboard that was far superior for quality Bookwork and for skilled Compositors to create magazine ads etc. Compositors who learned their trade with Linotype seldom could work in Printing Companies that had Monotype Machines, that needed a whole new skill set.

  • @VaxxedStories
    @VaxxedStories 8 місяців тому

    He forgot to mention that the magazine up top was for one specific font and had to be swapped out to change the font or switch to italics. Those magazines were very heavy and had to be lifted up to install at the top of the machine, after removing the existing one. A storage rack of perhaps a dozen magazines would be located near the Linotype.

  • @brentanoschool
    @brentanoschool 9 місяців тому

    Lane Tech - Chicago -had our daily paper and printed our own year book '73 - had 3 rooms linotypes - composing room , light tables - and offset press room

  • @Robert-vt5jc
    @Robert-vt5jc 9 місяців тому

    AAH, aah, aah, aah, aah, aahg, aah ehh

  • @strangekilt.1
    @strangekilt.1 9 місяців тому

    Preservation is the best thing to say what you are doing to that great old steam engine-pump keep up the great work 🎉🎉

  • @theaquifer
    @theaquifer 9 місяців тому

    Outstanding video! You did a great job presenting all this!

  • @sc1338
    @sc1338 9 місяців тому

    U should be really proud of saving this old girl

  • @wbwarren57
    @wbwarren57 9 місяців тому

    Great video! Thank you.

  • @jamestregler1584
    @jamestregler1584 9 місяців тому

    Thanks from old New Orleans 😎

  • @matthewmiller6068
    @matthewmiller6068 9 місяців тому

    (showing large trees) "the tracks are no longer serviceable" - biggest understatement ever. Great video BTW - would love to hear more about this plant, and I love that it was more than just "here's a big engine starting" but you actually dug into a lot of interesting details most videos never care about. Thanks for putting this out there!

  • @d2sfavs
    @d2sfavs 10 місяців тому

    absolutely fascinating so nice this is preserved thank you

  • @therocinante3443
    @therocinante3443 10 місяців тому

    Phenomenal! And I live close. I'll have to visit.

  • @jjosephm7539
    @jjosephm7539 10 місяців тому

    One side of my family had been in Bethlehem since the 1860's, the other since 1902. Both worked in "The Steel" during both wars. Bethlehem Steel did what was necessary to keep the company working for the war effort. This was at a time when the government was less intrusive in people's lives.

  • @michaeldomansky8497
    @michaeldomansky8497 10 місяців тому

    God bless you!

  • @RichardNickels-ot6iq
    @RichardNickels-ot6iq 10 місяців тому

    Awesome 😎👍

  • @egdiryellam68
    @egdiryellam68 10 місяців тому

    Americans refer to an engine as frozen if it cannot be rotated, --- the rest of the world which is not the U.S.A --- never know if the engine will not rotate because it is locked with ice or has the engine lubrication failed or a component failed ?????????

  • @PeterLee-zn3jl
    @PeterLee-zn3jl 11 місяців тому

    120 ton shipping weight..?

  • @PeterLee-zn3jl
    @PeterLee-zn3jl 11 місяців тому

    Steam powered...boiler ...building.....installation......maintenance FUEL..... INSURANCE...... REPAIR....... UNION...... DEBT

  • @PeterLee-zn3jl
    @PeterLee-zn3jl 11 місяців тому

    Whaaaat..? This thing is a cast....forged...rolled......40 ton machine..? Extra assembly required..... See our catalog..... Deliveries labor and advice

  • @rosswheatley8329
    @rosswheatley8329 11 місяців тому

    I'm here because I watched the Twilight Zone episode Printer's Devil and had no idea what a linotype is.

  • @fireballxl-5748
    @fireballxl-5748 11 місяців тому

    Echo terrible.

  • @rogerschuch2272
    @rogerschuch2272 11 місяців тому

    I was at the last run of big allis it was awesome. I’m actually in one of the videos with to of my friends. I’ve seen it run 3 times before they stopped the annual running

  • @overson15
    @overson15 11 місяців тому

    That's willy willy neat . Thanks for shaywing .

  • @Reaglesracing44_
    @Reaglesracing44_ Рік тому

    the proper people on here did a similar steam engine at another water plant.

  • @scowell
    @scowell Рік тому

    Damn... Alex Karnes, and we didn't even get to hear him talk.

  • @GaitaPonto
    @GaitaPonto Рік тому

    Wow, this is an impressive piece of history and engineering. Too bad it is rusty and dirty...let`s hope it gets restored in the near future.

  • @lewiemcneely9143
    @lewiemcneely9143 Рік тому

    When I was younger, our county seat had it's own paper and a linotype hid in a back alley. Every time I'd go to town I'd ease back and watch the operator, racked back in a cane-bottomed straight chair, chain smoking and typing like a son-of-a-gun. All the whirring and clunking and lead ingots being slowly dropped into the melter and type slugs whizzing around just astounded me. I'd lean against the door frame in a trance and since it was summer, the door was always open and the afternoon sun always shining inside. Some things you just don't forget!

    • @ImOnAJourney
      @ImOnAJourney 3 місяці тому

      Sounds such a wonderful way to spend an afternoon! I think I can smell the building and the hot lead and the old feller sitting there ☺️

    • @lewiemcneely9143
      @lewiemcneely9143 3 місяці тому

      @@ImOnAJourney Every time I was in town I'd go watch him. It was simply amazing with everything happening at once. Something you'll never forget!

    • @ImOnAJourney
      @ImOnAJourney 3 місяці тому

      @@lewiemcneely9143 You’re a lucky man to have lived through it, even luckier to still have such great memories those days spent in that doorway! Hold fast to those days, my friend! 😉

    • @lewiemcneely9143
      @lewiemcneely9143 3 місяці тому

      @@ImOnAJourney I have been BLESSED beyond measure and did a LOT of living! God is good! ALL the time!

  • @gratenate4932
    @gratenate4932 Рік тому

    I was running the Linotype machine at age 12 at the Eaton Rapids Journal office! My great-grandfather bought the paper in the early 1920's after it had been opened in 1879. I learned to type on a manual typewriter, too, and hold my H.S. record for men at 100 wpm.

  • @Train_Tok_Man
    @Train_Tok_Man Рік тому

    Why is the engineer’s seat on the left instead of the right which is the industrial norm?

  • @jasonnicholasschwarz7788
    @jasonnicholasschwarz7788 Рік тому

    I want to travel back to 1910 and remain there in an eternal loop, please!

  • @robehickmann
    @robehickmann Рік тому

    Great work on restoring it, and great presentation too.

  • @benniehazelwood9276
    @benniehazelwood9276 Рік тому

    If you have not been there. GO. You will be amazed at the size of the stem engine. Me and my wife went to see the place. The men at it were so much involved in the past. We had a great time there. You need to go see it. You want regret it. Ps. they have a Train museum there also it was the old town.

  • @johnmackey3210
    @johnmackey3210 Рік тому

    Please look into joining our club (North Jersey Antique Engine and Machine Club). I will be honored to cover your cost if you choose to do so... I was elated to hear about your endeavor and I look forward to visiting soon and possibly helping to restore you pump house and especially your steam engine!!!

  • @scorned230
    @scorned230 Рік тому

    What a cool video. He did a great job at explaining it.

  • @awfvkwbvawfvkwbv
    @awfvkwbvawfvkwbv Рік тому

    لي كل السعادة والفرح اني كنت عامل ماهر على هذه الماكنة طيلة ٢٥ عاما ..