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Shooting into the sun again - I can't help myself!
From Wiki:
The tower was built in 1856 to provide lead shot for the military. The concept of a shot tower solved the problem of how to produce many cheap, nearly perfect lead spheres of the right size to fit in a musket. To make lead shot, molten lead was poured into the top of the tower, where it passed through a grate. The droplets that fell from the grate were of relatively uniform size, and the fall provided enough time for the liquid-metal droplet to form into a sphere before landing in the water below. The water cooled the lead to its solid state, retaining the spherical shape.
Shot with a nice perspective! Nice shot with a tiny part of the sky appearing to be illuminated.
ReplyDeleteinteresting piece of history. I'm sure OSHA shut this one down.
ReplyDeleteGreat perspective! I like the small piece of burning sky behind the tower.
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