This came out the year I was born. You can see the differences between things like this from the 50's and 60's, and then the 70's and 80s. So much more informative. Many documentaries now suck....lol.
In the late '70s, Inland Steel "gentrified" the Cairo in DC, where my brother owns a condo. By law, it is the tallest residential building in the city. Ironically, the 1894 building relies on a hybrid masonry- steel support structure.
Awesome video! I think I have been to that steel plant, though it's amazingly dirty from roads layered with slag (that's where they toss it) and that on all of the buildings (and in them) for decades.
For many decades that slag was dumped into Lake Michigan forming more real estate forming Plants #2, #3 and Plant 4. If you look on a map you can easily see where this new property changed the Lake Michigan shoreline at East Chicago Indiana.
Say what you will, the slag was "paving" the dirt roads inside of several steel plants I visited. They did measure samples of it to get the condition of the kilns, and it may have been used many places. They create a LOT of it!
8:35 The company I work for does work for Inland Steel along with many other steel companies. One of the main purposes of the shop I work in is the refurbishment of variable width continuous slab casters. We have work in our shop right now from Inland.
Fun factoid... way long ago before there was free oxygen in the air, iron was dissolved in the ocean. When oxygen started appearing, the iron combined with it and precipitated into rust particles which fell to the ocean bottom. With a few zillion years and continental drifting and land upthrust and whatnot, those iron rust beds would get mined when the ocean bottom was now dry land.
Another fun factoid... the gold contacts in your computer which you're using to view this video were likely created when two neutron stars whacked into each other lonnnnnng ago.
Yes at Inland Steel there were around 25,000 employees when that film was made, but only 10 years later we were down to about 7,000 employees. Japan was kicking our butt starting around 1981,
Thank you
Sitting in my billet crane watching these videos killing the boredom.
This came out the year I was born. You can see the differences between things like this from the 50's and 60's, and then the 70's and 80s. So much more informative. Many documentaries now suck....lol.
Fantastic, thank you.
The narrator sounds like Johnny Carson, great video!
In the late '70s, Inland Steel "gentrified" the Cairo in DC, where my brother owns a condo. By law, it is the tallest residential building in the city. Ironically, the 1894 building relies on a hybrid masonry- steel support structure.
Awesome video! I think I have been to that steel plant, though it's amazingly dirty from roads layered with slag (that's where they toss it) and that on all of the buildings (and in them) for decades.
That's not where the slag goes. It gets granulated and/or crushed and used in several applications.
For many decades that slag was dumped into Lake Michigan forming more real estate forming Plants #2, #3 and Plant 4. If you look on a map you can easily see where this new property changed the Lake Michigan shoreline at East Chicago Indiana.
Way wrong my dude, they used the slag to build the peninsula inland steel was on.
Say what you will, the slag was "paving" the dirt roads inside of several steel plants I visited. They did measure samples of it to get the condition of the kilns, and it may have been used many places. They create a LOT of it!
8:35
The company I work for does work for Inland Steel along with many other steel companies. One of the main purposes of the shop I work in is the refurbishment of variable width continuous slab casters. We have work in our shop right now from Inland.
Inland steel is still around? I know it got bought up by another company, but does it still operate as a subsidiary?
I work for Inland which isnt inland. Its Arcelormittal
@@godking7567 At least the mill still operates in the US.
@@godking7567 Yes it now Arcelor Mittal. But we still refer to it as Inland internally since we do work for several of the Arcelor Mittal shops.
@@capriracer351 no doubt. Where u do your work
Worked the 10 " mill 1981
Fun factoid... way long ago before there was free oxygen in the air, iron was dissolved in the ocean. When oxygen started appearing, the iron combined with it and precipitated into rust particles which fell to the ocean bottom.
With a few zillion years and continental drifting and land upthrust and whatnot, those iron rust beds would get mined when the ocean bottom was now dry land.
Before the iron precipitated, the ocean was green rather than the now blue.
Iron... star stuff.
Created in supernovas and neutron star collisions.
Another fun factoid... the gold contacts in your computer which you're using to view this video were likely created when two neutron stars whacked into each other lonnnnnng ago.
GET BEHIND ME SATAN
Ha Ha Ha Your math is off by Zillions of years my friend!!
There's an irony to iron because iron is ironic.
Bad puns are fun.
Excellent use alliteration
So cold rolled steel is hardened?
It is hardened by the cold-rolling process, yes.
Why do I get the feeling a Terminator or two is running around in there?
I work there. No terminator but we do have Sloth from the Goonies
1984
These guys definitely have 99 smithing
Fellow RuneScape homie, I worked at this mill.
It's too bad that, just a few years later, many companies decided to obtain steel from overseas and people lost their jobs here at home.
Yes at Inland Steel there were around 25,000 employees when that film was made, but only 10 years later we were down to about 7,000 employees. Japan was kicking our butt starting around 1981,
True, but East Chicago works east and west side are still in operation today. Many mills across the US can't say the same.
Yeah steel back then got a zinc coating to prevent corrosion!