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.

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

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

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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

Kodak Gold 200 with Mamiya RB67 and Sekor 90 mm

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

abandoned carbide factory and hydro power plant - compressor hall

Taken at Houghton Grange

San Ardo, California 2004

Museum of industry

Scan from 6x6 color positiv film, AI enhanced.

Male and female rotor.

Iron ore processing plant

Zitat Wikipedia.de:

Das bei der Erzeugung von Koks entstehende Rohgas (etwa 2.000.000 m³ pro Tag) wurde zunächst in der sogenannten Kohlenwertstoffanlage gereinigt und ein Teil des Kokereigases wurde zum Hüttenwerk Union, später Phoenix, geleitet. Im Gegenzug wurde das Gichtgas der Hüttenwerke durch die stadtprägenden Leitungen (Durchmesser ungefähr 2 m) als Unterfeuerungsgas an die Kokerei geliefert.

Der größere Teil des Kokereigases wurde in den liegenden, dampfbetriebenen, zweistufigen, doppeltwirkenden Gaskolbenkompressoren (Verdichtern) auf etwa 8,6 bar verdichtet, im Hochdruckverfahren endgereinigt und in das Ruhrgasnetz gefördert.

The crude gas generated in the production of coke (about 2,000,000 m³ per day) was first cleaned in the so-called "carbon monoxide plant" and part of the coke gas was directed to the Hüttenwerk Union, later Phoenix. In return, the blast furnace gas of the metallurgical works was supplied to the coking plant by the city-forming pipes (diameter about 2 m) as an underfiring gas.

The larger part of the coke gas was compressed to about 8.6 bar in the horizontal, steam-operated, two-stage, double-acting gas-piston compressors, finely purified in the high-pressure process and fed into the Ruhrgas network.

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

50 mm diameter at the base

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharger

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

Dinorwic Slate Quarry, Australia Level. Snowdon on right.

San Ardo, California 2004

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Disused gas factory, Italy

shot at airport in the early mornings of winter