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No photoshopping was done on this image. Every night they would change the colour of this structure and this particular night it was black and white. (This was taken from my hotel room.)
Mingus Mill, on the North Carolina side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is a prime example of late 19th century engineering efficiency.
While nearly all mills have a millrace (seen here) channeling water from a stream to a mill-wheel, this mill channels the water into a penstock, which is a tall shaft of water maintained at a constant pressure to turn a turbine at the end of a pipe at the base of the shaft. The turbine is attached to the grinding stones; and, in this case, generates about 11hp at 400 rpm - pretty solid for its day!
The turbine is more efficient than a water wheel, which typically sits in water itself and has some back-pressure, and significant losses in the turn cycle.
The mill was an important hub in frontier life. Typically, families would bring their grains on Saturday for the miller to ground into flour. The miller would take a portion as payment (typically around 1/8) and might sell it to other users or customers who were conducting other bartering business in the nearby open spaces.
This mill, on the Mingus Creek, was built in 1886 and operated daily until 1930s when the NPS bought the land to make this Great Smoky Mountains NP. The NPS restored the mill to operational status in 1968, and it is used to demonstrate frontier life to visitors daily. While it is still fully functional, the grain milled here can not be sold for consumption because the resulting flour has been touched by so many tourists that it cannot be USDA approved.
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Twitter came out with view counts today. Posting this photo to both Flickr and Twitter today to see which site generates more views in the next 24 hours.
You never step in the same river twice in plain English and it remind us we can not turn the clock back, no matter how much we want to. The bridge over river Don was completed in 1911 and improved from ordinary to Toronto icon around 1996 with some added artwork (Eldon Garnet). Don was named after a river in England and it comes from Celtic goddess Dôn, which comes from Gaelic word for water. So it is 'River Water' or 'Water River'.
791. TMR Toronto 2021-Sep-06, P1550028. Uploaded 2021-Sep-11. Lmx -ZS100.
Hall of Liberation, Kelheim, Bavaria
The monument was built to commemorate the victories of the German states over Napoleon during the Wars of Liberation that lasted from 1813 to 1815.
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B&W conversion of two tall tanks at the Carlsberg brewery in Northampton. I think they are used to fill tankers.
Downtown Houston’s ExxonMobil Building, 1600 Smith Street, 1400 Smith Street and Wedge International Tower rise into the Texas sky.