Old stuff

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I know you guys like pictures, old things and machinery so...

Variety of different shells. The fort in Savannah was (going from memory) a hex shaped fort with brick walls 8 feet thick. It's first battle the enemy used an advanced armor piercing shell, that blew 2-4 foot deep chunks out of the wall. The shells hadn't been invented when they started building the fort.

Copper powder measure, each one with the measure on the handle

Not the greatest picture, but you can see the pikes in the corner. When war broke out the governor ordered thousands to be made, until someone pointed out how impractical they were

Not pictured- they had small cannons as well, mounted on a pole, that could swivel and pivot. One soldier could operate it effectively while still standing behind a wall

 

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Cotton bale scale, I think that one was 480 pounds

Spinning wheel, reel, loom

Cotton gin, for cleaning cotton

 

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Wheeled wage payment cart, the cart was wheeled from one area of the mill to the next on payday

Mill coins, to let you shop at the company store

Leg irons (not a great thing but anyway), but look at the receipts posted around them

Police issue brass knuckles

 

[Susquatch]

Copper powder measure, each one with the measure on the handle

Adds new meaning to powder measure for me! Holy Cow!

Thrilled to see your post! Missed you around here!

 

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Just random stuff. They posted the warning about loose lips around factories on billboards, around when the Cold War broke out

The velocipede (spelling) was used for checking tracks, to see where repairs needed to be done

 

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Adds new meaning to powder measure for me! Holy Cow!

You measure it to the grain, these guys grabbed a coffee mug. It's kinda the same

 

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[140mower]

........ and here I thought everyone got together for a group photo without me. Good to see you back.

 

[historicalarms]

Well I must say you had my attention (as usual) at the first photo, That big powder mug would shake your teeth when you pulled the friction fuse string i'm betting.
Don that photo you have of my big gun firing was charged with about 1/4 the powder that the small cup would hold.

As always Chicken, keep air in your chair and the shiny side up!!!

 

[140mower]

It's an impressive sight!

 

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Well I must say you had my attention (as usual) at the first photo, That big powder mug would shake your teeth when you pulled the friction fuse string i'm betting.
Don that photo you have of my big gun firing was charged with about 1/4 the powder that the small cup would hold.

As always Chicken, keep air in your chair and the shiny side up!!!

I've got some trivia for you- curious how much of this you knew (and I might have some of it wrong)

The colours (flag) were a symbol of victory, during the wars. So at the battle of Baltimore, when the British attacked, men literally died to keep the flagpole upright. The nation wasn't even formed yet but it was that important to them. Francis Scott Key was a lawyer and a poet who wrote a poem about it. That started the tradition of why the flag must never touch the ground

And the bridge in Baltimore that fell down last year? The Francis Scott Key bridge, that's who it was named after

 

[historicalarms]

That is interestingly ironic....keeping the flag up but having his bridge fall !!
Im not much up on "war of independence" trivia but I can usually hold my own on civil war history.
One thing that gets me when I fire my big gun with only 1/4 the powder charge of a "in service field piece", is the noise ( bigger boom than any hunting rifle youve heard) and can only imagine what it was like at Gettysburg with 160 big guns on the Union side & 140 on the confederate side hammering each other across a valley for 3 solid days.