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Hot Riveting Process

This video was produced by Lansing Community College (Michigan) with funding from the National Center for Preservation Technology & Training (National Park Service).

Rivet Removal

This video was produced by Lansing Community College (Michigan) with funding from the National Center for Preservation Technology & Training (National Park Service).

Pack Rust Removal

This video was produced by Lansing Community College (Michigan) with funding from the National Center for Preservation Technology & Training (National Park Service).

Shop and Field Riveting

Vern Mesler presents on "Shop and Field Riveting and the Historic Record" from the October 25, 2022, session of IA Online. IA Online is a production of the Society for Industrial Archeology (https://www.sia-web.org).

The SIA is dedicated to the study, interpretation and preservation of industrial sites, structures, artifacts and technology and is North America's foremost network of people with academic, professional and avocational interest in the industrial past.

Historic Bridge Park

Destination Michigan, Season 14, Episode 1 (2023), features the Calhoun County Historic Bridge Park.

“Destination Michigan” is an original series produced by Central Michigan University Public Television, aired on PBS, “highlighting the people and places that make Michigan a special place to live.”

Welding the Big Ring

Filmed in 1904 at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, workers forge-weld a large ring by hammering the heated metal.

This film is part of the National Film Registry's "Westinghouse Works."
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.