The mine Ramsbeck is an ore mining museum and a visitor's mine in Sauerland (Ramsbeck, municipality of Bestwig).

In the visitor's mine one can find out about the dismantling of lead and zinc in the original tunnel.

With the original pit road the visitors 1.5 km are driven in the mountain.

Then 300 m in underground tell experienced miners in old tunnel about her former work.

The photo shows a single stage compressor with electro engine, build in 1908 by Mannesmann Demag company in Frankfurt am Main.

Beautiful light at the entrance of the old Compressor House at Geevor tin mine. The building was used to create compressed air for equipment down the mines.

For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from Geevor, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:

Cornwall

old steam compressors in the machine hall at the coking plant Hansa in Dortmund.

Entrance to the compressor house, with the sea beyond.

For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from the old mines, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:

Cornwall

The ruin of the old compressor house at Levant Mine, in thick fog. It was used to make compressed air to work the drills in the mines.

For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from the old mines, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:

Cornwall

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With my three uploads today I've been looking at reflections in the windows of the foghorn shed at the Low Head Lighthouse in northern Tasmania. Once again we see the view behind me of the sea, sky and clouds. And through the glass we also catch a glimpse of the air compressors of this massive foghorn that can be heard 30 kilometres out to sea. But with the reflection it creates an almost surreal image in the René Magritte sense.

It was installed in 1929, and if you look closely you can see some of the fine engineering that went into producing this compressor.

Abandoned factory

The compressor house on a different day - no fog and actually plenty of sunshine. Fantastic structure.

For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from the old mines, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:

Cornwall

San Ardo, California 2004

San Ardo, California 2004

Museum of industry

Taken at Houghton Grange

Male and female rotor.

abandoned carbide factory and hydro power plant - compressor hall

Iron ore processing plant

Scan from 6x6 color positiv film, AI enhanced.

4 stage compressor for air. Manufactured at DEMAG in the 60s. Freshly overhauled it still runs today....

I think Peter Lindbergh would have liked it.

Ilford HP5+ exposed like 1600ISO, developed in Kodak's HC110.

Mamiya645 proTL, Sekor45/2.8

San Ardo, California 2004

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Disused gas factory, Italy

50 mm diameter at the base

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This was manufactured on a 5 axis Robodrill CNC machining center.

I like doing closeup images of fountains, freezing the action of the water; water into air. I wondered what air into water might look like. I used a compressor to shoot a narrow stream of air into a bowl of water. This is the result.