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seasoned to taste, this liquid steel can be scientifically alloyed to make it cleaner, tougher, stronger... and even stainless. ...’
National Carbon Company, Inc. January 1941.
#illustration #illustrationart #graphicdesign #industrialsublime #steel #NationalCarbonCompany
January 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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In #JANUARY 1941
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‘Making Consommé of Steel’
#illustration #illustrationart #industrialsublime
‘In the man-made inferno of an electric arc furnace, 6,500 degrees Fahrenheit converts hard, cold steel into a liquid that can be poured like a consommé. And as consommé can be ➡️
January 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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#Fortune for #JANUARY 1941
‘Otto Hagel [1909–1973]: Photo’
Cover of *Fortune*, January 1941
#photography #photographers #colorphotography #landscapephotography #OttoHagel #industrialsublime
#winterlandscape
January 12, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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in the fields of chemical technology and production.’
Illustration by Stanley Meltzoff (1917-2006)
#UnitedEngineers. January 1958.
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #graphicdesigners #StanleyMeltzoff #welding #industrialsublime #StillLife
January 10, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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The Linde Air Products Company. January 1943.
#illustration #illustrationart #welding #LindeAirProducts #shipbuilding #WW2 #industrialsublime #WarBonds
January 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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In #JANUARY 1943
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‘Flames That Cut Time!’
#illustrationart #industrialsublime #shipbuilding #WW2
'Today ships are needed as never before. And today, ships are being built as never before . . . and faster, stronger, and with less steel . . . thanks to welding! ...’
January 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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In #JANUARY 1950
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‘Private Eye for Industry’
Illustration by Woodi Ishmael (1914-1995)
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #WoodiIshmael #IndustrialSublime #researchanddevelopment
January 8, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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gives faster wings to America’s planes. ...’
US Stoneware - Akron, Ohio. January 1943.
#illustration #illustrationart #industrialsublime #Tygon #plastics #magnesium #WW2 #DefenseIndustry
January 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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In #JANUARY 1943
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‘These Tanks wear TYGON overcoats, inside’
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‘Somewhere in the wastelands of the West rises one of the world’s largest plants for making magnesium - the silvery white metal whose lightness and strength ➡️
January 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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In #JANUARY 1901
‘Stage Memories by Clara Morris’
Cover of *McClure's Magazine*, January 1901
Illustration by Albert Sterner (1863-1946 👉ALT)
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #AlbertSterner #GraphicDesign #McClures #IndustrialSublime
‘Albert Edward Sterner was a British-American illustrator and painter’ (Wikipedia) ‘McClure's or McClure's Magazine (1893–1929) was an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century. The magazine is credited with having started the tradition of muckraking journalism (investigative, watchdog, or reform journalism), and helped direct the moral compass of the day. The publishing company briefly got into the film business with McClure Pictures. . . .’ (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/McClure%27s#/Writers_and_editors)
January 7, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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old-fashioned engines of yesterday...’
Chrysler Industrial Engines. January 1950.
#industrialsublime #manufacturing #engines #horsepower #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #LarryBaranovic #designer #airbrush
January 6, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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only gears, but a host of other metal parts and articles can have their wearing surfaces hardened . . . exactly where hardness is needed to resist wear. ...’
The #LindeAirProducts Company. January 1942
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January 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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in the United States, no trouble or expense was spared to add the most modern innovations of the distiller’s art to the 75-year skill and experience of this famous old house. ...’
December 1934 (plant closed 1979)
#illustrationart #HiramWalker #distillery #industrialsublime
December 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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In #DECEMBER 1934
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‘Hiram Walker & Sons
Now complete and in operation
The World’s Largest and Most Modern Distillery’
#illustration #illustrationart #HiramWalker #distillery #industrialsublime
‘From the moment that Hiram Walker & Sons decided to build a distillery ➡️
December 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Pennsylvania Railroad from 1925 through 1958. ... Depicted here is PRR engine #6110, a T-1 (4-4-4-4) "Duplex" built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works during April of 1942 & retired in December of 1953 ...’
#industrialdesigners #railroads #locomotives #industrialsublime
December 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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indeed - and in the spirit of his age - here, with oil on canvas, presents aviation as the consummate achievement of human industry.
#CharlesSheeler #americanart #precisionism #IndustrialSublime #aviation #aircraft
Image from https://www.fulltable.com/vts/f/fortune/ills/sheeler/b.htm
December 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Power - industrial, mechanical, and natural - in the United States, here that generated by a steam turbine.
#CharlesSheeler #americanart #precisionism #IndustrialSublime #steamturbine #powerplant #infrastructure
Image from https://www.fulltable.com/vts/f/fortune/ills/sheeler/b.htm
December 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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and natural - in the United States, here the proverbial power of the locomotive, for his ‘Power Portfolio’.
#CharlesSheeler #americanart #precisionism #IndustrialSublime #locomotives #railroads
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December 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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- in the United States, here the especially sublime and beautiful Boulder (now Hoover) Dam for his ‘Power Portfolio’.
#CharlesSheeler #americanart #precisionism #IndustrialSublime #HooverDam #BoulderDam #hydroelectricPower
Image from https://www.fulltable.com/vts/f/fortune/ills/sheeler/b.htm
December 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Rather, he combined two different perspectives in the painting, reduced the number of figures in the plant, and significantly cleaned up the industrial interior.’
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#CharlesSheeler #americanart #precisionism #IndustrialSublime #TVA #hydropower
‘'... Sheeler’s ability here to conceive near photographic realisation through his paint is tremendous. From the edged shadows of the brick walls above the exiting corridor, to the two workers stooped together in probably incidental reverence, everything is freighted with reality. Especially the turbine, which feels almost surrealist in its aggressive imposition on the picture... I feel an almost benign aggression by Sheeler, a latent tension that hangs the machine as a noose above the men that it towers. The men who, after all, have no real power in the picture. They are presumably for maintenance & button pushing, incapable of the unimaginable power that the beast of ‘Suspended Power’ was built for. An omnipotence Sheeler suggests by cutting ‘Suspended Power’ off at the base, as if the machine itself could burrow right off into the ground & away from everything, off out the canvas even. ...’ https://kweiseye.wordpress.com/tag/charles-sheeler/
December 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Choosing amongst them: a railroad, a dam, a waterwheel, a steam engine, an aeroplane, and ... a hydroelectric turbine.’
#CharlesSheeler #americanart #precisionism #IndustrialSublime
December 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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‘United Engineers & Constructors Inc’
#Illustration by #StanleyMeltzoff (1917-2006) December 1957
#illustrationart #illustrationartists #StanleyMeltzoff #StillLife #engineering #engineers #construction #UnitedEngineers #industrialsublime
December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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In #DECEMBER 1957
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‘With transit and blueprints, concrete buggy and tarpaulin-covered concrete forms, Stanley Meltzoff dramatizes the experienced teamwork of engineering and construction skills behind the surging growth of American industry.’
#StillLife #industrialsublime
December 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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#OTD in 1956
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‘Mountains on the move’
Illustration by Paul Rabut (1914-1983)
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #pulpwood #woodpulp #industrialsublime #papermill
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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rude and ill-formed are these primitive occupants of the candlestick; but, in the course of time, progression, one of the natural laws governing all civilized communities, led to...’
['No. 4.- The “Night Light” and Packing Department.’]
#IndustrialSublime #IndustrialRevolution
December 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM