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Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed at Tube Turns, Inc., by heating lengths of pipe with gas flames and forcing them around a die, Louisville, Kentucky: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, 1941
For the individual, life is made easier through capitulation to the collective with which he identifies. He is spared the cognition of his impotence; within the circle of their own company, the few become many... The feeling of a new security is purchased with the sacrifice of individual thinking... At the present moment, no higher form of society is concretely visible... Whatever was once thought, however, can be suppressed; it can be forgotten and can even vanish; but it cannot be denied that something of it survives. For thinking has the momentum of the general. What has been cogently thought must be thought in some other place and by other people. This confidence accompanies even the loneliest and most impotent thought.
Bessemer converter (iron into steel), Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., Brackenridge, Pennsylvania: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, 1941
White-hot steel pours like water from a 35-ton electric furnace, Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. The finest quality steels and alloys are produced in these furnaces, which allow much greater control of temperature than other conversion furnaces. The proportion of electric furnace steel is rising steadily, even though this process is the most expensive. "The furnace is tilted for the pouring." The flying sparks indicate the fluidity of the steel: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, 1941
Slag run-off from one of the open hearth furnaces of a steel mills, Republic Steel Corp., Youngstown, Ohio. Slag is drawn off the furnace just before the molten steel is poured into ladles for ingotting: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, November 1941
An experimental scale model of the B-25 plane is prepared for wind tunnel tests in the plant of North American Aviation, Inc., Inglewood, Calif. This plant produced the B-25 bomber: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, October 1942
Assembling B-25 bombers at North American Aviation, Kansas City, Kansas: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, October 1942
Transformer at TVA's Chickamauga Dam near Chattanooga, Tennnessee: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, June 1942
Barrage balloon, Parris Island, South Carolina: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, May 1942
