Word: conveyors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss of the small Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad, Harry Bartlett Stewart Jr., 44, had spent half his life shipping coal. But Bart Stewart thought there was a better way to do it than by train. Last week, he formed a company to build the longest conveyor belt in the world to haul coal and ore. It would stretch from Lorain on Lake Erie for 103 miles south to East Liverpool on the Ohio, with branch belts to Cleveland and Youngstown...
Stewart's tubelike conveyor would run on trestles 22 feet above the ground, with "transfer points" (see cut) to shift the coal and iron up & down elevations in the land. Inside the tube would be two belts, one carrying coal north from the coal-mining towns along the Ohio River, the other carrying ore south from lake freighters to the steel mills. There would be enough room in between the belts for workers to tend the machinery. In this way Stewart hoped to move 29 million tons of coal, 30 million tons of iron ore and 3 million tons...
...snorting vans lumbered up to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and disgorged rich cargoes from Detroit. Inside the hotel, swarms of workmen sweated under floodlights to turn the Grand Ballroom into the fanciest automobile showroom on earth. On a wide stage, they set up an endless chain conveyor and a revolving platform for the new models; across the room, they reared a 25-ft. pylon above a cluster of jewel-bright auto engines...
...working model is a low-slung, 25-ft.-long, electric-motored contraption which travels on caterpillar tracks. It has two horizontal rows of rotary steel drills which chew out the coal and sweep it on to a conveyor, which carries it over the tail of the machine into mine cars...
...loading-which now require separate crews and machinery. It also eliminates two chief mining dangers-cutting and blasting. One of the problems it creates for mine owners is that it turns out coal too fast (up to 1,000 tons a shift) for mine elevators. Faster ways-perhaps conveyor belts-must be devised to carry the coal to the surface...