Obsolete Works
By Obsolete Works
Categories: History
Documentaries about the machines, parts and systems America built and left behind, drawn from primary sources. Narrated with an AI voice. Sources and credits are in each episode's notes.
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Recent episodes
- Henry Ford Sank Nearly $300,000 Into This Coal Mine. Then Left.
In 1923 the Ford Motor Company filmed coal pouring from a chute into a railroad hopper. Henry Ford's coal company had bought the lease on the Nuttallburg mine in West Virginia's New River Gorge to feed his River Rouge plant, and it spent close to $300,000 there: a new steel tipple from Roberts and…
- They Built WWII's Airstrips. Then Their Names Disappeared.
In 1944, Navy cameramen filmed carryall scrapers leveling coral into airstrips in the Pacific. The Army's prime contractors for machines like these were Caterpillar and R. G. LeTourneau, a California dirt contractor who put rubber tires on heavy equipment and built the self-propelled scraper every…
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