Interesting industrial pictures from the turn of the Century.

[Delmonico]

Not the Old West, but the plating and polishing depts of National Cash Register Dayton Ohio from around 1902 by William Henry Jackson:





A lot of those made it out west.

[JimBob]

Boy,look at those big open contact rheostat switches in the first picture on the posts by the plating tanks.

Here's movie from 1902 that's interesting as it involves blacksmithing on an industrial scale-

[G.W. Strong]

Here is one of my favorite blacksmithing videos.

Thomas Edison company 1893 -- Blacksmiths

[G.W. Strong]

Here is another Edison 1893 video of a barbershop

[StrawHat]

I like the belt driven machinery.  Not sure if NCR used steam or water to power the belts but either have worked for centuries. 

[pawneefork]

I like the belt driven machinery.  Not sure if NCR used steam or water to power the belts but either have worked for centuries. 

As I understand it, most of thoseearly industrial machinery belts were made from buffalo hide, which is why the plains were emptied as fast as they were.  Buffalo wasn't good for anything else but belts and rags.