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The City of Pittsburgh (Harper's Magazine, December, 1880) - Page 59

 
ingot toward the finished rod, or bar, or sheet. Overhead runs the single rail of a miniature "elevated railway," affording rapid transit by means of pendent carriers for glowing, pulpy balls of steel from furnace to Gothic-framed steam-hammers. Here a touch upon a lever and an earthquake is born, while the Titanic dance of the five-ton hammer-head soon converts the shapeless mass into a solid block of wrought steel. On every hand is seen the wonderful co-operation of ponderous perfected machinery with trained muscle. Particularly is this the case at the smaller hammers, where the hammer-man, in a swinging seat, times the turning of his rod of steel to the quick stroke of the hammer so skillfully that the [Steel-Works] Emptying the Crucible
EMPTYING THE CRUCIBLE.