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This Diesel Central has been built in 1906 and was part of an old brewery (founded in 1632). Four huge diesel engines produced electricity until the mid 50s. Interestingly the diesel engines, each 4 x 8 m in size, were built in my hometown Graz by the former „Grazer Waggon- und Maschinen-Fabriks-Aktiengesellschaft“. Generators came from the "Wiener Schuckert-Werke" and "Österreichische Siemens AG".
Built in Art Deco style in 1914, closed 2007 - control room of the transformer and switchgear building.
A "Selfaktor" is a fully automatic spinning machine.
Textile mill "Tuchfabrik Gebrüder Pfau" (1865-1990)
Built in Art Deco style in 1914, closed 2007 - control room of the transformer and switchgear building.
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The Williamson Block
178 Picton Main Street
Construction of the Williamson Block probably dates back to the 1870s. It once housed Thomas Hess, photographer, upstairs and the Bell telephone switchboard. In 1959 the building was occupied by the W.H. Williamson insurance company. Renovation and careful maintenance of the building have preserved this outstanding contribution to Picton’s Main Street.
Fuse Wire
For Macro Monday
When we first moved in here 16 years ago the electrical switchboard had wired fuses, the switchboard was renewed about 9 years ago, with circuit breakers instead of fuses but I still have 2 cards of fuse wire in the bottom or 'junk drawer' of my desk. The card measures 55 mm in width.
Photographed in the corner of the 'junk drawer'!
Happy Macro Monday!
Boiler house (double oil fired Steinmüller radiant boiler) of an abandoned power plant for a former paper factory - Germany
The building, owned by Japanese financial services company the Nomura Group, is London's first carbon neutral building. The sixth floor terrace, with views over the City and the Thames, is the size of eight tennis courts and is open to staff and clients who fancy eating al fresco. The formal gardens feature hedges, shrubs, herbaceous plants, ferns, herbs and grasses.
The kitchen garden is made up of 12 vegetable beds, which are managed voluntarily by the building's switchboard team. The edible garden has about 25 varieties of vegetables and flowers, used daily by the company's chefs. The surplus is offered for sale to staff, with profits donated to charity.
100x: The 2024 Edition
7/100 London landmarks by night
Happy Bench Monday!
control room of a nuclear power plant, which has been built in the mid 70's and is in the same state since then.....
to be continued later
Jugendstil Kraftwerk Heimbach
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Das Wasserkraftwerk wurde im Verbund mit der Urfttalsperre gebaut und am 8. August 1905 in Betrieb genommen.[2] Es liegt zwar an der Rur, bezieht aber sein Wasser aus der Urfttalsperre über den Kermeterstollen, der 67 Höhenmeter oberhalb des Kraftwerkes in zwei Druckrohre übergeht und eine Wassermenge von 16 m³/s abgibt. Das Kraftwerk war bei der Einweihung mit einer Leistung von 12 Megawatt das größte Speicher-Wasserkraftwerk Europas und wird von der RWE Innogy betrieben.
Church of the Colònia Estebanell (1870), Camprodon, Camprodon Valey, Ripollès, Catalonia.
CATALÀ
La Colònia Estabanell és una entitat de població i antiga colònia tèxtil de Camprodon (Ripollès).
Malgrat que la fesomia de colònia industrial s'està perdent, en la seva època d'esplendor la colònia estava formada per una fàbrica tèxtil, una església, una escola, tres blocs d'habitatges per a obrers, un cafè, una sala de ball i un estanc. L'església, dedicada a sant Antoni de Pàdua, i en la qual s'hi realitzen esporàdicament actes religiosos, té com a elements destacables, un petit campanar amb campana i un rosetó i, a la part posterior, tres finestrals d'arc apuntat, el central resta tapat. L'escola, d'estil arquitectònic racionalista, està en funcionament. Els habitatges s'agrupen en quatre blocs, i el cafè i la sala de ball s'utilitzen de magatzem i garatge, respectivament.
L'any 1870 s'iniciaren les obres de construcció d'aquesta colònia, la primera del riu Ter. Fou iniciativa de l'industrial d'Olot Antoni Matabosch, que traslladà per l'antic camí d'Olot a Ripoll tota la maquinària per a la posada en marxa de la nova fàbrica de filats i teixits de cotó. La instal·lació tenia 300 telers i una secció de tints. La fàbrica patí un gran incendi l'any 1917. La companyia tèxtil Estabanell i Pahissa l'any 1923 va comprar la colònia a Matabosch i la colònia va passar a anomenar-se Colònia Estabanell, denominació que encara perdura en l'actualitat. La companyia li donà un nou i renovat impuls, va reconstruir la fàbrica, va posar en marxa la filatura i va ampliar la fàbrica successivament fins al 1957.
ENGLISH
Colònia Estabanell is a population entity and former textile colony of Camprodon (Ripollès).
Although the physiognomy of an industrial colony is being lost, in its heyday the colony consisted of a textile factory, a church, a school, three blocks of housing for workers, a cafe, a dance hall and a tobacconist The church, dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua, and in which religious events are held sporadically, has as notable elements, a small bell tower with a bell and a rose window and, at the back, three pointed arched windows , the switchboard remains closed. The school, with a rationalist architectural style, is in operation. The dwellings are grouped into four blocks, and the cafe and ballroom are used as storage and garage, respectively.
In 1870, construction work began on this colony, the first on the Ter River. It was the initiative of the Olot industrialist Antoni Matabosch, who moved all the machinery for the start-up of the new cotton yarn and fabric factory along the old road from Olot to Ripoll. The facility had 300 looms and a dye section. The factory suffered a major fire in 1917. The textile company Estabanell and Pahissa bought the colony in Matabosch in 1923 and the colony was renamed Estabanell Colony, a name that still persists today. The company gave it a new and renewed impetus, rebuilt the factory, started spinning and expanded the factory successively until 1957.
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